Patent ID: 7877920

Claim:
A gun safe comprising: an interior compartment defined by a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls, the interior compartment providing interior storage means for storing rifles, guns or firearm accessories; a single safe door having an interior surface, the safe door hingedly attached to one of the two side walls at an inner vertical edge of the safe door; and a rifle rack permanently mounted on the interior surface of the safe door such that the rifle rack does not interfere with the interior storage means or the two side walls, the rifle rack comprising a stock support positioned on a lower portion of the interior surface of the safe door and comprising at least one butt recess disposed at an acute angle relative to the interior surface of the safe door, and a barrel support positioned on an upper portion of the interior surface of the safe door for securing a barrel of a rifle, each of the stock support and the barrel support having an outer edge extending away from the interior surface of the safe door at a right angle and tapering to an acute angle relative to the interior surface of the door to form a cut-away portion in the outer edge of each of the barrel support and the stock support.