Patent ID: 8448369

Claim:
A gun, comprising: (a) a stock; (b) a receiver carried by said stock; (c) a barrel attached to said receiver, said barrel having a major axis, said barrel carrying a Picatinny rail, said Picatinny rail having plural transverse grooves; (d) a fire control system carried by said receiver and operated by a trigger for enabling a user to fire a round of ammunition through said barrel; and (e) a bipod device having a major dimension and being carried by said Picatinny rail of said barrel so that said major dimension of said bipod device is parallel to said major axis of said barrel, said bipod device having (1) a housing with two spaced-apart channels formed therein parallel to said major axis of said barrel, (2) a stationary bracket carried by said housing, (3) a pair of pivoting brackets carried by said stationary bracket, said pivoting brackets being pivotable with respect to said stationary bracket, (4) two legs carried in said channels and slidable with respect to said housing, said stationary bracket and said pivoting brackets between a stored position in said two channels and an extended position outside said channels, said pivoting brackets permitting said two legs to pivot between said extended position and a deployed position approximately perpendicular to said axis of said barrel, said two legs being parallel when in said extended position and being splayed when in said deployed position, wherein said bipod device has a longitudinal groove formed therein dimensioned and shaped to receive said Picatinny rail, and wherein said gun further comprises a lock to secure said Picatinny rail in said longitudinal groove.