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Old 11-27-2012, 07:22 PM
Frizzman Frizzman is offline
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If the security of your sleeping place is so poor that a person can force their way in and stand over your bed while you sleep, the gun may be of little use. I would first focus on securing and hardening entry points. I would have some sort of method to alert you that someone is in your house. My house has a security system but my main alert system consists of two large dogs sleeping on the floor at the foot of my bed. I keep a shotgun and a pistol in my room. The shotgun has the magazine loaded and the chamber empty. The pistol has a loaded mag in it but an empty chamber I keep all of this along with my cellphone, a couple of lights and my landline phone within reach. We also shut and lock our bedroom door when we go to sleep. We are not comfortable having a firearm with a chambered round right in or next to the bed and I think we would get plenty of warning if an intruder tried to get in. Our daughter no longer lives at home so its just us and the dogs.
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