Patent ID: 6089426
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: F41A,F41C,Y10S

Abstract:
A combination comprising a shotgun, said shotgun comprising a barrel portion with a forearm on an underside thereof and a stock portion with a trigger guard on the underside thereof pivotally connected proximate a breach of said shotgun to permit manipulation of said shotgun between a closed condition in which said portions are in substantially straight alignment and an opened condition in which said portions are in angled alignment and a holster for supporting said shotgun above the ground in said opened condition at the side of a shooter, said holster comprising a pair of rods extending in spaced-apart relationship between front and rear walls with said rods being centered on axes approximately in a common horizontal plane, said walls being spaced to receive the pivotally connected barrel and stock portions therebetween so as to prevent the shotgun from sliding off said rods, said rear wall having means thereon for mounting said holster proximate the waist of the shooter so as to support said shotgun above the ground, said rods being spaced by a distance less than the distance between breach sides of said forearm and said trigger guard of said shotgun in said closed condition such that said rods are entirely positionable between said forearm and said trigger guard and greater than combined heights of said forearm and said trigger guard so that, when said barrel and stock portions are at rest on said rods, the weight of said barrel portion causes said breach side of said trigger guard to engage against said rod on which said stock portion rests so as to prevent rotation of said shotgun off said rods.