Patent ID: 8104313

Claim:
A security enclosure, comprising: an enclosure base having inner wall surfaces and an opening to an interior portion defined between the inner wall surfaces; a cover configured to selectively cover the opening in the enclosure base, the cover being configured in a manner to rotate from a first position in which the cover blocks access to the interior portion of the enclosure base to a second position in which the cover allows access to the interior portion of the enclosure base; a positioning structure having first and second parallel side walls rigidly connected by a third side wall, the first and second side walls spaced apart from inner wall surfaces of the enclosure base when the positioning structure is within the enclosure base; a gun positioner housed within the positioning structure and rotatably disposed within the enclosure base to rotatably displace a handgun in a plane defined by the handgun from a first position entirely within the enclosure base to a second position where at least a part of the handgun protrudes out of the opening for grasping by a user, the gun positioner being configured to rotate about a pivot axis substantially transverse to the handgun plane to displace the handgun within the handgun plane; and a biasing element operating against the cover in a manner that biases the cover to the second position, the biasing element being disposed at least partially between the first and second side walls of the positioning structure.