Enhanced bolt carrier assembly
View Patent ↗A bolt carrier assembly having a bolt carrier with at least one gas exit hole located at the bottom of the bolt carrier so as to allow the passage of gas generated from a discharged round of ammunition downward into the magazine and magazine well of a firearm, away from the user.
1 . A breech bolt assembly comprising of:
a bolt carrier being an elongated body having a top side and a bottom side, a left side and right side, and defining a bolt section, hammer section, and end section;
said body having an exterior and a central bore along a central bore axis;
said bolt section having a bolt head end, a bolt body section, and a bolt tail end section;
the bolt body section defining a bolt body channel and a gas ring channel;
the bolt tail end defining a boat tail channel and a carrier firing pin channel;
the bolt body channel, gas ring channel, bolt tail channel, and carrier firing pin channel aligned along the central bore axis;
a bottom side of the bolt section defining a left groove and a right groove with a boss in between, and at least one bottom gas channel traversing from an exterior to the central bore; where the bottom side of the bolt section has a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the left groove to the bolt body channel, a bottom channel traversing from the an exterior of the left groove to the bolt tail channel, a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the right groove to the bolt body channel, and a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the right groove to the bolt tail channel;
a bolt; and
a carrier gas key.
2 . The breech bolt assembly of claim 1 where the bottom side of the bolt section has a first bottom channel traversing from the exterior to the bolt body channel, and a second bottom channel traversing from the exterior to the boat tail channel.