Non-lethal gas operated gun
A latching magazine including a latch member and a safety closure that engages the latch member and blocks movement of the latch member. An air gun including a barrel block with a cruciform shaped projectile hopper that includes a top recess that is narrower than a projectile diameter and a top recess and a bottom recess that is wider than the projectile diameter. An assembly for use with an air gun that includes a housing that contains a plurality of double-stacked projectiles, a storage portion that is wider than at least one and a half projectile diameters, a follower with a first surface and a head that includes a second surface that is orientated at an obtuse angle relative to the first surface with both surfaces engaging projectiles in the storage portion.
1 . An air gun that fires spherical projectiles having a diameter, the air gun comprising:
a barrel having a barrel block, the barrel block comprising a projectile hop-up, an external face and a cruciform shaped recess extending inwardly from the face and, the cruciform recess including a center recess, a top recess, two side recesses and a bottom recess, wherein the projectile hop-up is positioned within the center recess, wherein a width of the bottom recess is larger than the diameter and wherein a width of the top recess is smaller than the diameter; and
a ramp positioned at the bottom of the bottom recess that extends from the center recess through the bottom recess and away from the face.
2 . The air gun of claim 1 , wherein a width of the two side recesses are smaller than the diameter.
3 . The air gun of claim 2 , wherein the width of the two side recesses are larger than the width of the top recess.
4 . The air gun of claim 1 , further comprising: a bolt carrier having a front end, the front end comprising a bottom rail, and a nozzle configured to seal within the center recess when the bolt carrier is in a firing position, wherein the bottom rail is configured to strip a projectile from a magazine and push the projectile up the ramp into the center recess and wherein the front end defines a recess extending between the bottom rail and the nozzle.
5 . The air gun of claim 4 , wherein the bolt carrier defines a plane extending along the front end and where the nozzle and an end of the bottom rail are both on the plane.
6 . The air gun of claim 4 , wherein the ramp defines a recess configured to receive the bottom rail when the bolt carrier is in the firing position.
7 . The air gun of claim 4 , wherein the nozzle defines a flat surface configured to seal against the projectile hop-up to create a gas-tight chamber between the nozzle and the projectile hop-up.
8 . The air gun of claim 4 , wherein the front end further comprises a top rail and two side rails and wherein the recess extended around the nozzle between the top rail and the nozzle, and each of the two side rails and the nozzle.
9 . The air gun of claim 8 , wherein the center recess is configured to receive the top rail, the bottom recess is configured to receive the bottom rail and the two side recesses are configured to receive the two side rails when the bolt carrier is in the firing position.
10 . The air gun of claim 4 , wherein the bottom rail is configured to contact a projectile positioned at a feeder opening and pushes the projectile onto the ramp as the bolt carrier moves forward.
11 . The air gun of claim 10 , wherein as the bolt carrier continues to move forward, the bottom rail pushes the projectile up the ramp and into the center recess.
12 . The air gun of claim 10 , wherein the bottom rail passes through a loader opening in the magazine as the bolt carrier moves from the retracted position toward the firing position.
13 . The air gun of claim 1 , wherein the cruciform shaped recess defines a recess depth that extends between the projectile hop-up and the external face, wherein the recess depth is greater than the diameter of the spherical projectiles.
14 . The air gun of claim 1 , wherein the ramp comprises left and right ramp portions separated by a center recess such that an area directly beneath the center of mass of the spherical projectile does not contact the ramp.