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Article: Italian Inventor Develops Firearms Sear Mechanism
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 14, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Ugo Gussalli Beretta of Trompia, Italy, has developed an additional safety device for sear mechanism for firearms.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sear mechanism for firearms comprises a sear box, and an additional safety device to prevent the hammer from releasing accidentally and to fire under the action of inertial forces acting along the direction of the axis of the barrel in case of impact of the firearm, the additional safety device being an interposing element which is slidably mounted below the firing pin latch in a housing having a first inclined plane element and a second inclined plane element which are arranged between lateral ...