Patent ID: 6032395
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
A magazine loaded shotgun comprising;a receiver having a front end, a rear end, a top surface and a bottom surface;an elongated gun barrel having a rear that is connected to the front end of said receiver;a stock having a front end that is connected to the rear end of said receiver;a trigger housing assembly having a front end and a rear end, said trigger housing assembly being mounted in a trigger housing assembly aperture in the bottom surface of said receiver;an elongated shotgun shell magazine aperture in the bottom surface of said receiver and said shotgun shell magazine aperture is located forwardly of said trigger housing assembly aperture;a bolt assembly having a front end, a rear end, a top surface and a bottom surface; a firing pin extending from the front end of said bolt assembly; a tang extending downwardly below the bottom surface of said bolt assembly and means for pivoting said tang upwardly into a slot in the bottom surface of said bolt assembly; said tang on said bolt assembly functions to engage the rear surface of a shotgun shell located in a feed lip assembly of a shotgun shell magazine and drag the shotgun shell forwardly into the rear end of the gun barrel of the shotgun so that the shotgun shell can be fired; anda winged ramp assembly having a ramp body portion having a front end, a rear end, a longitudinally extending concave top surface, a bottom surface, a left edge and a right edge; a left guide wing portion extends upwardly a predetermined distance from said left edge of said ramp body portion and a right guide wing portion extends upwardly a predetermined distance from said right edge of said ramp body portion; said winged ramp assembly being positioned in said receiver adjacent said front end of said receiver; said winged ramp assembly also being positioned forwardly of said shotgun shell magazine in said bottom surface of said receiver; said winged ramp assembly functions to guide a shotgun shell forwardly as it exits said shotgun shell magazine and into said rear end of said gun barrel and thus prevents a shotgun shell from jamming said shotgun.