Abstract: Cartridge magazine for semi-automatic firearms has a base, side walls and a front and rear wall. The front wall has an opening at its upper end for the feeding of cartridges into the chamber of the firearm. The magazine includes a spring and a spring follower which feeds the cartridges upwardly toward the feed lips on the upper edge of the side walls of the magazine. A guide member extends inwardly from opposed sidewall portions of the magazine to engage the extractor groove of the cartridge being advanced toward the feed lips. Each guide member is formed by die lancing the side walls of the magazine at a distance from the feed lips greater than the cartridge radius, but less than the diameter thereof. Each member has an upright edge portion disposed at an oblique angle to the real wall of the magazine such that it is generally perpendicular to the axis of the cartridges being fed by the magazine spring follower.

Abstract: A reversible magazine catch mechanism for handguns includes a knurled actuator button removably screw-fitted onto a shaft which is disposed for slidable axial movement in a bore which extends laterally through the frame of the gun. An enlarged head portion is disposed on the end of said shaft opposite the actuator button and an arm extends radially from the head for interlocking engagement with cutouts provided in opposite sides of the magazine. A spring-biased detent engages a recess in the undersurface of the actuator button to prevent unscrewing of the button from the shaft and to bias the latch arm of the laterally movable shaft into engagement with one of the magazine cutouts.