Patent ID: 7937873

Claim:
A buttstock for a carbine comprising: a buttstock body; a magazine receiving enclosure in said buttstock body; said buttstock body including a distal butt, and a first sidewall projecting proximally from said butt and bounded by an upper comb surface which opposes a bottom; a cover for said enclosure and supported on said buttstock body for movement between open and closed positions; a cover latch assembly for said cover; means for mounting said buttstock on a receiver of the carbine, said cover latch assembly including at least one slidable latch pin supported in said cover; a latch groove formed in said buttstock body, said latch groove comprising a pair of opposed side walls, at least one latch pin receiving blind bore extending from one of said latch groove side walls into said buttstock body; and at least one latch pin retraction lever engageable with said at least one slidable latch pin and adapted to slide said latch pin into said at least one latch pin receiving blind bore and out of said at least one latch pin receiving blind bore in opposition to a biasing force imposed by a biasing spring positioned in said cover.