US Patent Issued to Timothy Scott Schmalbeck on Sept. 22 for "Two-stage multiuse gun clearing and test trap with replaceable decelerant" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,619, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Timothy Scott Schmalbeck (Rigby, Idaho).

"Two-stage multiuse gun clearing and test trap with replaceable decelerant" was invented by Timothy Scott Schmalbeck (Rigby, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reusable gun clearing and test trap has two chambers, a bullet capture chamber and an attached bullet inlet chamber to stop fired bullets, the capture chamber having at least one user-serviceable door for interior access to receive a bullet decelerant. An elastomeric mass such as blocks of compressed crumb rubber or vulcanized virgin rubber retardant is removably insertable into the inlet ch...