US Patent Issued on April 15 for "Automatically-reloading air guns and methods of operation" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,476, issued on April 15.

"Automatically-reloading air guns and methods of operation" was invented by Louis F. Riley (Conway, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically-reloading air guns and methods associated therewith. The automatically-reloading air gun includes a barrel fixedly carried by a frame, and a vent aperture in fluid communication with a firing chamber. Actuation of a release mechanism from an engaged position to a disengaged position allows a charge of compressed gas to slide a firing piston forward to force a projectile in the firing chamber into the breach end of the barrel. The compressed gas can exhaust out of...