Patent ID: 6308448
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
An interlocked firing mechanism for a gun including a trigger, a rotatable sear and a firing pin having a depending leg and being movable in a rectilinear manner along a firing axis, said interlocked firing mechanism comprising:said depending leg is adapted to have a contact surface;said sear is adapted to have a control surface in mating engagement with said contact surface at a time prior to said firing pin being released to initiate forward movement of said firing pin, said sear rotating in a first direction to initiate said forward movement of said firing pin;said contact surface and said control surface are adapted to have parallel surfaces which contact one another along a mating plane wherein an edge of said mating plane defines a mating axis; andwherein said mating axis is set at a predetermined angle from a line perpendicular to said firing axis, said acute angle sweeping in said first direction from said line perpendicular to said firing axis.