A firing system using a gas piston instead of a trigger spring provides firing by air that is released after contacting an air outlet valve needle in pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) rifles. This system results in a high outlet speed as well as rapid fire by use of a lever that limits the single release of air into the tube.

Airguns are provided with semi-automatic action.

An air gun is provided with a magazine safety system and methods of making the air gun safe utilizing the magazine. The air gun includes a magazine well protrusion (e.g., floorplate) configured to extend into the magazine well when no magazine is properly inserted into and received in the magazine well. In the extended position, the protrusion prevents actuation of the main valve of the air gun. When a magazine is properly inserted into the magazine well, the protrusion is pushed into a recessed or depressed position by the interaction of the magazine with the magazine well such that the protrusion does not prevent actuation of the main valve of the air gun.

A gun powered by compressed gas with no loss-making expansion space, having: a pressure chamber interconnected with a barrel, and a projectile opening of the barrel at an inlet of the pressure chamber, the pressure chamber and the barrel being mutually lockable by a valve, wherein upon firing the gun: the pressure chamber and the barrel form one space, the valve is connected to a tie rod, and passes through the pressure chamber to a striker space, wherein within the striker space: the tie rod is fitted with a spring, the striker and an end of the tie rod are equipped with a stop, and the spring is positioned in the striker space between the striker and a special section wall, and wherein: the barrel, tie rod, valve, and striker are mounted along one axis, and the valve is controlled by the striker via the tie rod.

A projectile launch apparatus for discharging a NERF™ brand dart, or toy launchers each having a rotatable dart carrier in either a gun-like or rifle-like configuration. Each of the apparatus includes an energy creation system embodying a cylinder housing a piston and a launch spring, a handle for priming the apparatus, and components for causing the dart carrier to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the launch apparatus.

The present invention discloses a toy gun, and relates to the technical field of toys. In the present invention, a driving mechanism drives a gear set to rotate, and the gear set drives a piston to move reciprocally in a cylinder body, so that the piston compresses air in the cylinder body, and high-pressure air is ejected from an air nozzle. After a gel ball is loaded into a gun barrel, since the air nozzle is inserted at one end of the gun barrel, the compressed air ejected from the air nozzle pushes the gel ball out of the gun barrel, thereby realizing the firing of the gel ball. Compared with the toy gun that cannot fire bullets in the traditional art, the present invention improves the playability.

A puncture mechanism that is configured to puncture a seal provided over a mouth of a canister of compressed gas received within a less-lethal device to propel a projectile from the less-lethal device when a trigger mechanism of the less-lethal device is actuated by a user. The puncture mechanism includes a displaceable body that has a piercing mechanism which is configured to pierce the seal provided over a mouth of the canister. The puncture mechanism further includes an actuation arrangement, which comprises a trigger mechanism, for displacing the displaceable body towards the canister whereby the piercing mechanism pierces a seal of the canister and compressed gas flows into a barrel of the less-lethal device to propel the projectile from the less-lethal device.

A system for loading BB-shot into an air weapon includes a loader for storing BB-shot having an aperture, a pressure system promoting forced transfer of the BB shot through the aperture, a cartridge with a cylindrical body having axial channels offset by a predetermined angular pitch for housing rows of BB-shot balls, an elastic occluding member for holding the rows of BB-shot balls in the channels, an intermediate cylindrical element having a passage with an inlet communicating with the aperture and an outlet to be longitudinally aligned to one of the channels, a detaching member interacting with the occluding member for locally disabling it at the outlet and allowing a row of BB-shot balls to be transferred into the channel. The cartridge is rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the intermediate element for aligning the outlet of the passage with one channel at a time.

Described embodiments include a real-time system, method, and apparatus. A system includes an incoming object sensor configured to acquire data indicative of a trajectory of an incoming projectile. The system includes a human tracking circuit configured to acquire data indicative of a location of a human present in a monitored geographic area. The system includes a processing circuit configured to (i) receive the data indicative of the trajectory of the incoming projectile; (ii) predict a spatial relationship of the trajectory of the incoming projectile relative to the location of the human; and (iii) determine a suggested movement by the human to evade the incoming projectile. The system includes a transmitter circuit configured to transmit the suggested movement to evade the incoming projectile.

A pneumatic assembly for a projectile launching system including a body defining a continuous bore. A nozzle is positioned within the bore adjacent the forward end of the body and is moveable between a rearward position wherein the nozzle facilitates passage of a projectile through a projectile port and a forward position wherein the nozzle blocks the projectile port to prevent passage of a projectile therethrough.