Patent ID: 7047771

Claim:
A gun lock for receiving and clamping a cross-sectional portion of a firearm, said gun lock comprising: a slide bar mountable to a surface in a storage location; a locking assembly slidably mountable to said slide bar; said locking assembly comprising: a U-shaped base plate having opposing legs with each leg having an opposing slot dimensioned to receive said slide bar; a mating pair of castings; left and right fixed side plates; a pivotably attachable ratchet arm having a plurality of ratchet teeth, wherein said left and right fixed side plates are permanently mounted between opposing legs of said U-shaped base plate, enclosing said mating pair of castings therein, and such that said pivotably attachable ratchet arm is rotatably attached between said left and right side plates; a solenoid locking assembly positioned within said mating pair of castings comprising an electrically activatable plunger adapted to engage one of the ratchet teeth of said ratchet arm to lock said pivotable ratchet arm in position around the cross-sectional portion of the weapon to be locked therein; such that said solenoid locking assembly is releasable via a switch; a manual override assembly positioned with said mating pair of castings comprising a key operated camlock that is connected to the plunger of said solenoid locking assembly via a camlock arm such that when said key is turned, said arm rotates in one direction, said plunger disengages from the ratchet teeth of said ratchet arm and when said arm rotates in the other direction, one of said ratchet teeth is engaged to again lock said locking assembly; a set screw assembly for releasable locking said locking assembly onto said sliding bar comprising a set screw and a set screw nut positioned within said mating pair of castings, wherein said set screw is accessible by a hex key through an opening in said mating pair of castings only when said ratchet arm is in the unlocked open position.