US Patent Issued to Bear Creek Arsenal on Oct. 14 for "Lever action firearms having gear assemblies and linkage assemblies for connecting its action lever to its bolt carrier assembly and associated methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,603, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bear Creek Arsenal LLC (Sanford, N.C.).

"Lever action firearms having gear assemblies and linkage assemblies for connecting its action lever to its bolt carrier assembly and associated methods" was invented by Chadwick Eugene Moore (Siler City, N.C.), Peter Austin Karstaedt (Sanford, N.C.) and William Randal Hardee III (Sanford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lever action firearms having a linkage assembly for pivotally connecting its action lever to its bolt carrier assembly and associated methods are disclosed. The lever action firearm includes a bolt carrier assembly received in an uppe...