Bullet Button question.

[CavTrooper]

Who created the bullet button?

[Gshock]

I was wondering the same thing today, so I searched and found this

From Prince50 Designs, the BULLET-BUTTON is available

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=46802

[SemiAutoSam]

Do you mean who first marketed it or who first came up with the idea ?

Who created the bullet button?

[thedrickel]

I'm sure many people thought of a bullet button-type device, it only took me about 10 readings of the law to figure out that a bullet-actuated mag lock would be ideal and would also be practical on an AR. Gotta hand it to jjperl though for the AK BB, which also inspired my FAL design. The jumbopanda AK button is also very clever and IMO is a superior design due to its ease of installation and removal.

[tenpercentfirearms]

I believe Metroshot might have been the first to market a "bullet button" type device, however it didn't go over that well and no one seemed to notice how this device would give you an "attachable magazine" rifle. I am not sure if they though it up or just tried selling it from someone else's idea.

Gene Hoffman let everyone known on 1/1/07 that he thought of a device that would enable us to all have "attachable magazines" and suddenly everyone wanted one, but Gene didn't think he would be ready until March.

Prince50 contacted me late in the afternoon 1/1/07 and said he already had a design that he made back in the Metroshot device days but when it didn't get much attention, he let it drop. I asked how quickly he could have 100 of them to me and he said, "Two weeks!" He did have them to me in two weeks and I can't remember if he came up with it or me, but we both kind of skeptically decided to call it the Bullet Button. After an initial flaw in the design, he fixed it and that is where the current "Bullet Button" that is most widely sold for AR15s came from. The Bullet Button name seems to have been a good choice.

[Red_5]

Regardless of who came up with the idea.... THANKS!

[CavTrooper]

10%-

youve got an email.

[ar15barrels]

There was someone selling 80% receivers at CA gunshows back in 2003 or 2004 with a shortened bolt catch, a mag catch button cut-in-half and a second mag catch button with a hollow center and the rear half cut-off.
The guy mounted the front half of the button to the receiver so that you could not push the release without a tool.

All you had to do was complete the 80% receiver yourself.
He was selling drill jigs and tooling etc...
He even had a collection of DOJ letters to show off that proved (relatively) that it was legal to construct in that manner.

This is the first time I saw the idea and it was WELL before the 2005/2006 OLL rush began.