Patent ID: 7921587
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
1. An ambidextrous magazine release for a firearm, the firearm having a magazine well configured to operatively receive a magazine, the magazine having a side locking recess within the magazine well when operatively received therein, the ambidextrous magazine release comprising: a linkage movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position having a lock pin configured to be received in a side-locking recess of a magazine operatively received in the magazine well with the linkage in the engaged position and to clear the side-locking recess with the linkage in the disengaged position; a one piece actuator on the firearm, the actuator comprising a bar having opposing push surfaces extending between a right and a left side of the firearm; and an interface between the linkage and the actuator, the interface being configured so that as the either of the opposing push surfaces of the bar is pushed by a user, the linkage is moved between the engaged and the disengaged position; wherein the linkage interface comprises a recess in the bar defining a pair of converging cam surfaces and a cam rider extending from the linkage into contact with the cam surfaces, the linkage being in the engaged position with the cam rider at the convergence of the cam surfaces.