Abstract: A grip for a handgun including a deformable elastomer grip part positioned on each side of the handgun handle. One or more of the grip parts has a recess in its outside to receive a non-deformable stiffening element. The size and shape of the recess and stiffening element can be varied to accomplish the desired flexibility-to-stiffness of the handle grip.

Abstract: This relates to a method and apparatus for increasing the rigidity of a conventional pre-existing rifle action receiver of the type which includes a cartridge magazine port having first and second longitudinal edges, an ejection port, and a bolt which reciprocates within the receiver to engage a cartridge and urge it into a chamber at the rearward end of a barrel which is secured into a threaded opening in the front of the receiver. First and second plates are fixedly coupled proximate the first and second edges of the magazine port and extend downwardly therefrom. Rigidity can be further increased by coupling a transverse lateral plate between the first and second plates. Weight and balance can be altered by coupling an insert between the plates.

Abstract: The pistol handle has a recess for housing a mainspring housing which is also a lanyard loop body and hammer strut unit in a releasable catch arrangement. The lanyard loop body, hammer strut, and mainspring are telescopically aligned and are withdrawn from the pistol as a unitized system during disassembly. Connector means between the loop body and strut are operative only during disassembly to prevent separation of the loop body and strut upon their removal from the pistol handle. The unit is secured in the handle recess through a bayonet joint and the unit may be turned and removed only when the magazine has been previously withdrawn.

Abstract: A receiver for a bolt action rifle having at least one seat surface for seating a bolt lug. The seat surface is positioned on a rearward portion of the receiver adjacent a breech opening and the surface is formed by movement of a broach through such opening.

Abstract: A two-position manual safety arrangement for an automatic pistol which pistol has a pivotal firing pin, a hammer blocking means, a trigger bar, a sear rotated by the pin blocking means and a configured slide. The safety arrangement includes a safety lever body rotatably mounted in the slide. The lever body carries first means to prevent the hammer from striking the firing pin in the first safety position and second means for preventing striking of the firing pin in the second safety position. The firing pin blocking means also blocks the firing pin in the second position.

Abstract: A trigger mechanism for firearms having a slide, a trigger and a trigger bar in which the trigger includes a cam section which is mounted for rotary movement in a frame recess housing. A spring biasing arrangement urges the trigger cam against frame recess surfaces and urges its trigger bar against the slide.

Abstract: A frame-mounted firing pin blocking piece for blocking a semi-automatic pistol firing pin which blocking piece at all times blocks the firing pin except just prior to and at firing. The blocking piece is rotated to its unblocking position by action of a trigger bar which bar is in turn positioned by the trigger and the firearm slide. A sear associated with the firing pin blocking piece permits such operation in single action, double action and re-set modes.

Abstract: An inactivating selector arrangement for a bolt action firearm for inactivating the sear and trigger and for inactivating the bolt. The multiposition selector is rotatable to a first position to restrain the sear-trigger; to a second position to restrain both sear-trigger and bolt and to a third position in which neither sear-trigger nor bolt is restrained.

Abstract: A single action firearm having a hammer with a load and a full-cock position, a trigger and a frame with a reciprocating firing pin positioned in the frame above the trigger in which a trigger bar is nested in both side and front recesses in the hammer. The recesses are located in the exterior of the hammer to permit a larger hammer to be removed from a firearm and the recessed hammer and trigger bar of this invention substituted. The trigger bar as installed is positioned below the trigger in the load position and behind the firing pin in the full-cock position.

Abstract: An auto-loading or semi-automatic firearm having a reciprocating bolt and a magazine positioned below the path of the bolt. The bolt has a longitudinal recess therein and finger means mounted adjacent the bolt which extend into the bolt recess. The finger means are caused by magazine action, after the last discharge, to exit the bolt recess and restrain bolt movement.

Abstract: A firearm slide dampening system in which the slide is associated with a rod. The slide moves rearwardly during recoil until it engages a novel floatingly mounted socket on a transverse axle. The rearward end of the rod carries a novel spring-biased head slanted and shaped to the slidably engage the socket to absorb energy the socket receives from the slide.

Abstract: A revolver having essentially conventional cylinder, trigger, and cylinder pawl is provided with a novel and positive acting cylinder latch arrangement wherein the trigger has a trigger pivot portion formed with a transverse pivot hole and with a longitudinally extending actuator receiving slot through which the trigger pivot pin extends, a cylinder latch actuator is slidably mounted within said actuator receiving slot and on said trigger pivot pin for limited longitudinal and rotational movement on said pin within said slot, and a cylinder latch is pivotably mounted for rotation of the nose portion thereof into and out of engagement with the cylinder latch notches formed in the outer surface of the cylinder.