cabinet 30 comprises a front wall 32 a rear wall 33 side walls 34 a top wall 35 and a bottom wall 36 the illustrated door 40 comprises a front face 42 a rear face 43 side edges 44 a top edge 45 and a bottom edge 46 the cabinet 39 s walls 33 36 form the corresponding walls 23 26 of the housing 20 and the door 40 forms the front wall 22 of the housing 20 the hinge 27 extends between the cabinet 39 s top wall 35 and the door 39 s top edge 45 whereby the door 40 pivots upward and downward when moving between the closed and opened positions the cabinet 30 includes a window 37 which communicates with the gun storage chamber 21 the door 40 includes an inset 47 which fits inside window 37 when the door 40 is in the closed position as is best seen by referring additionally to fig3 the handgun safe 10 comprises a locking mechanism 50 which is convertible between a locked condition and an unlocked condition in the locked condition the door 40 is locked in its closed position in the unlocked condition the door is unlocked for selective movement between its closed position and its opened position the illustrated locking mechanism 50 comprises two locking devices 51 contained within the inset 47 in the door 40 in the illustrated embodiment each locking device 51 includes two deadbolts 52 which shift between an extended stance and retracted stance to convert the locking mechanism between its locked condition and its unlocked condition in the extended stance the deadbolts 52 protrude laterally outward from the door inset 47 and into aligned cylindrical receipts 53.