Low profile firearm wall mount
View Patent ↗A low profile firearm wall mount providing convenient storage and retrieval of a firearm having a protruding lip around a perimeter of a magazine well of the firearm. The wall mount has a body with a slot formed therein, the slot further comprised a slot opening, and a back, floor, and front walls having at least one channel inscribed therein, the channel adapted to slidably receive the protruding lip accessible from the slot opening. In a method of use, when the slot opening is oriented upwards, the firearm is positioned above the mount. When the slot opening is oriented sideways left or right, the firearm horizontally engages or disengages the slot. By customizing the channel to a profile of the protruding lip, the wall mount is adapted to receive an AR 15 rifle, pistols, or any type of firearm with a magazine well and protruding lip.
1. A wall mount for receiving a protruding lip formed along an exterior perimeter of an opening of a magazine well of a firearm, the wall mount comprising:
a body having a U-shaped slot defined by a slot back wall inscribed with a back channel, a slot floor, and a slot front wall inscribed with a front channel;
wherein the U-shaped slot is further comprised of an opening sized and shaped to receive a front side of the magazine well of the firearm; and
wherein the front and back channels are aligned so that both the front and back channels receive the protruding lip of the magazine well when the magazine well of the firearm is positioned inside the slot,
whereby the protruding lip engages the front and back channels to prevent rotation of the magazine well within the slot so as to maintain an upright position of the magazine well.
2. The wall mount in claim 1 , wherein the mount receives the magazine well and protruding lip of an Armalite 15 rifle.
3. The wall mount in claim 1 , wherein the mount body is made of plastic.
4. The wall mount in claim 1 , further comprising an elongated back face on a wall adjacent side of the body, the back face formed with an aperture sized and shaped to receive a threaded fastener.
5. The wall mount in claim 4 , wherein the body further comprises a shoulder, and wherein the shoulder joins an upper wall end of the slot back wall to the back face.
6. The wall mount in claim 4 , wherein the aperture is formed at an upper end of the back face and a second aperture is formed on a lower end of the back face.
7. The wall mount in claim 4 , wherein the body is further comprised of a bottom having a first end and a second end;
wherein the slot front wall is further comprised of an opposed front face; and
wherein the back face adjoins the bottom at the first end; and
wherein the second end extends away from the first end and angles upwards adjoining a lowermost end of the front face.
8. The wall mount in claim 1 , wherein the front channel and the back channel of the U-shaped slot are further comprised of a left channel and a right channel inscribed therein, disposed in parallel but divergent arrangement along the slot back wall and the slot front wall, and in parallel arrangement along the slot floor; and
the protruding lip of the magazine well is positioned inside either the right channel or the left channel when the firearm engages the wall mount.
9. The wall mount in claim 8 wherein the left channel or the right channel has a concave profile.
10. The wall mount in claim 8 , wherein the left channel or the right channel is sized and shaped to slideably mate with the protruding lip of the magazine well.
11. The wall mount in claim 8 , wherein the protruding lip of the magazine well is positioned into the left channel of the U-shaped slot when an opening of the U-shaped slot is positioned upwards and the firearm is positioned to a right side of the mount with the opening of the magazine well facing a left side of the mount.
12. The wall mount in claim 8 , wherein the protruding lip of the magazine well is positioned into the right channel of the slot when the opening of the slot is positioned upwards and the firearm is positioned on a left side of the wall mount.
13. The wall mount in claim 8 , wherein either the left channel, the right channel or both the left channel and the right channel are continuous across the slot back wall, the slot floor, and the slot front wall.
14. The wall mount in claim 1 , wherein the mount receives the magazine well and protruding lip of a pistol.
15. A method of mounting a firearm with a protruding lip formed along an exterior perimeter of an opening of a magazine well of a firearm to a wall surface using a wall mount having a U-shaped slot inscribed therein with a pair of parallel but divergent channels sized and shaped to receive the protruding lip and an opening of the U-shaped slot sized and shaped to receive the magazine well, the method comprising the steps of:
orienting the opening of the U-shaped slot of the wall mount so as to face either upwards or sideways;
fastening the wall mount to the wall surface;
orienting a front of the magazine well towards the opening of the U-shaped slot; and
sliding the protruding lip into one of the channels of the pair of channels.
16. The method in claim 15 , wherein the pair of channels are further comprised of a left channel and a right channel, and wherein the step of orienting the opening is further comprised of:
orienting the opening of the U-shaped slot towards a right side; and
wherein the step of sliding is further comprised of:
sliding the protruding lip into the left channel.
17. The method in claim 15 , wherein the pair of channels are further comprised of a left channel and a right channel, and wherein the step of orienting the opening is further comprised of:
orienting the opening of the U-shaped slot towards a left side; and
wherein the step of sliding is further comprised of:
sliding the protruding lip into the right channel.