Door mounted vehicle gun rack

A two-piece gun rack for a vehicle door for holding mounted rifles, shotguns, and the like in an upright position adjacent said vehicle door comprising:

• a gun butt rest adapted to be secured to a lower portion of an inside panel of a vehicle door such that it can be rotated about a substantially horizontal axis and fixedly secured in any rotatable position;
• an elongated support arm having at one end thereof attaching means for securing the support arm to an upper portion of the inside panel of the vehicle door such that it can be rotated about a substantially horizontal axis and fixedly secured in any rotatable position and at the other end thereof barrel holding means comprising two legs in a generally right angle configuration, one leg consisting of an elongated extension member having a flat surface face containing an elongated slot, the other leg consisting of a pair of spaced apart, parallel arms, said parallel arms being turned at their outer ends away from the extension member, a curved surface face of said extension member for receiving a gun barrel therein extending between said elongated slot and said parallel arms;
• elastic cord means having one end through and slidable along the slot in the said one leg and having an enlarged knob formed at the other end, whereby when said elastic means is positioned to extend between the parallel arms the enlarged knob having a diameter greater than the space between said parallel arms will engage the turned outer ends to hold the elastic means therein;
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• fastening means slidable along the leg having the slot therein and securing the one end of the elastic means against being pulled through the slot.