Automatic weapon equipped with at least two cartridge magazines

摘要

An automatic weapon equipped with at least two cartridge magazines from which loose cartridges can be conveyed into a common discharge channel, and a device for switching the cartridge infeed from one cartridge magazine to the other. The switching device embodies mechanism which can be selectively adjusted into two positions independent of emptying of one of the cartridge magazines. By means of the mechanism the cartridges in each instance can be fed, in one position of the mechanism, from the one cartridge magazine into the discharge channel and at the same time are blocked in the other cartridge magazine.