You or your lawyer must be smoking some good stuff. Sure you can patent your Ruger 10/22 modification, but you cannot patent a generic idea.
If you think you own the rights to anyone who bumpfires or anyone who adds a spring to their rifle, then all I can do is slowly shake my head and try not to laugh.
Actually, MANY years ago... MANY years ago... long before I ever even owned guns, I had the idea "hey I wonder if the rifle recoils backwards will it come back forward and fire itself again?"
I thought of the basic concept of bump firing long before I owned guns, long before Gunsnet was on the web, long before there WAS a world wide web and certainly long before you patented (or thought) of anything.
"Bump firing", I am quite sure, is a term that WE throw around here. I've never seen the term in a magazine or book. I've only read it here.
In fact, the first time I heard the term, I though "oh yeah that's the thing I thought of years ago".
Not the refined, machined parts that YOU made, but the generic idea of recoil operated rapid fire.
Surely you know how an M2 and M1919 machine gun work? The action reciprocates with a "booster spring". You gonna sue John Browning too?
I'll post a picture of my AR-15 spring stock. I'll send you a video of me using it. Hell I'll mail you one for your own. Come sue me.
Good grief.
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