Patent attributes
Apparatus and method for implementation of multiply-repeated removal and/or reinstallation of an element terminating the body of the firearm magazine. The apparatus includes a receiving body having opposing walls judiciously separated by a distance sufficient to receive the magazine in-between, and a release cam hingedly cooperated with such body to move a camming element of the cam move in an out of the space between the walls. The method involves completely disengaging the locking tab(s) of the body of the magazine from the corresponding notch(es) at the terminating element prior to separation of the terminating element from the body of the magazine by carrying out precisely dimensioned, repeatable and multiply reproducible elastic compression of the body of the magazine with the use of release cam(s) and holding the wall(s) of the body of the so-compressed magazine in their elastically-bent form at least for the time required to remove or re-install the structural terminating element.
