Please comment on my mag lock, need input

[Ryan in SD]

Not much people in the shotgun forums.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=547817

Im making some for rifles too.

[yuccales]

Looks good! Maybe the "crossbar" inside the trigger guard should be black to match the rest of your lock.

[Dark Mod]

How much are you charging for this?

[Gowking]

Competition is good but if it's popular and you are going to charge around $30 for it expect to get ripped off by someone selling foreign made copies on eBay. That's what happened to the original Solar Tactical design.. You can find a knock-off of the original design on eBay for about $14. Trust me if you haven't actually filed for a Patent it would be easy enough for someone to find that out and move forward which is why, IMO, the target price for any of the BB should be about $15 and American made. At $15 you wouldn't need a patent on it and I guarantees that if it does what it is supposed to without falling apart then that's all people would buy.

-MRA

[thedrickel]

Too late, I already sent the pictures to my contacts in China. They'll be on the market in . . .

[SamsDX]

I like the design - it's clean and low profile; looking forward to seeing the rifle version.

Trust me if you haven't actually filed for a Patent it would be easy enough for someone to find that out and move forward which is why, IMO, the target price for any of the BB should be about $15 and American made. At $15 you wouldn't need a patent on it and I guarantees that if it does what it is supposed to without falling apart then that's all people would buy.

A provisional application would be kept secret (except that it would expire after a year) and if no foreign filings are expected, a non-publication request can be filed for the later non-provisional application. It's hard to say how much the backlog is at the patent office for mechanical technology such as this, but I would expect a delay of at least a year, if not longer (thought I've been surprised from time to time). So, it would be possible to make it a little bit more difficult for infringers and copyists to find.

If past pricing is any indication, I would expect Ryan to price really aggressively and competitively - his flat bending tool is a fraction of the cost of the other one available.

[tujungatoes]

Looks good Ryan.

[Gowking]

You know out of curiosity can anybody find a magazine lock that has been successfully patented? Heck even one that was filed for? I'd be interested to see the language used in filing something like that.

-MRA

[SURVIVOR619]

Agreed, it looks real clean! Hit me up when you have some for a said rifle... I'm in S.D. too!