Patent ID: 8683725

Claim:
A magazine-latching assembly for a firearm for releaseably coupling to a magazine, the magazine-latching assembly comprising: a receiver configured to accept the magazine, the magazine including a first tab; a latch body slideably disposed in the receiver, the latch body having a latch-body aperture and being moveable forward and aft along the length of the firearm, and the latch body being biased in a first direction; a notch disposed in a first surface of the latch body and configured to accept the first tab of the magazine; a locking member pivotably coupled to the latch body and having a locking-member aperture with a locking-member cam surface; and a rod received by the locking-member aperture and the latch-body aperture and moveable by an actuation member, the rod being moveable in a second direction opposite the first direction by the actuation member to contact the locking-member cam surface and to pivot the locking member about a pivotal coupling with the latch body from a first position in which the locking member engages the receiver to a second position in which locking member is disengaged from the receiver, the rod being further moveable in the second direction to move the latch body in the second direction out of engagement with the first tab on the magazine.