Recommendation for Bedside gun

[AJ]

Been thinking about a revolver and part of asking this question is to get see if this might be a place to scratch that itch.

Revolvers are good. Especially since there not much to operate to get it to function. The original "Point and Click".

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Unless you and everybody else likely to need to use it are gun people I recommend a medium frame .38 special revolver. Adequate power. Easy to operate. Not a ridiculous overpenetration threat. Flashlight. Maybe even electronic ear muffs handy.

Agreed. I do have a flashlight. I can't imagine reaching for ear muffs in such an emergency.

Late at night, when something awakens me, other than having to go to the loo , and if I suspect danger, I keep a nifty 3" Model 686+ on the table next to my bed. Loaded with plain old defensive ammunition that I know will work - 38 Special Winchester Silvertips and Hornady ..... hmmm... can't think of the cute name they use. Hollow points.

No magnum rounds. Back in the day when I kept a 3" M629 (happily sold) in a similar location it was loaded with 230 grain LRN .44 Specials. No magnum rounds. You have to be a little off in your defensive thinking to want to use magnum rounds inside your house. Never mind an apartment or condominium. A log cabin deep in the woods and nobody else around? Okay, go ahead, load up those magnums.

Why a revolver? Because I'll never have to wonder if there is a round in the chamber while I'm sleep groggy. Because I know it will work 7 times even if I limp wrist it in my then condition. And if by the 7th round the situation is not resolved in my favor there is another revolver ready to go in my closet (my carry gun resides there) and an Ithaca Model 37 12 gauge pump that I can get to if the goblins are swarming the house.
Not a scenario I anticipate but if I have to fight my way to one of the 9mms secreted in the house I can do that, too. I just don't keep pistols in the bedroom but by the time I'd need pistols I assure you I'll be very wide awake.

 

[Moe Mentum]

S&W .38 special, model 15

 

[BAM-BAM]

Clickers for the claymores......... no flashlight or WML, no clearing the house ....... just call SERVPRO for cleanup!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

You want to make dure your wife is sleeping on the side of the bed closest to the door. While the intruder is trying ot get through hwer, you can grab the chosen firearm and scream "Drop" ( having previously told your wife that when she hears that word she is to drop to the floor without question) Thereafter light the *&%$^# up. If you are in the country where nobody will hear the shots, drag the intruder into the bathroom and put him in the tub ao bleed out. Then cut him up (quarters will be fine) and then feed the parts through the wood chipper. After it's just clean up-remember clorox is your friend.

 

[AJ]

You want to make dure your wife is sleeping on the side of the bed closest to the door. While the intruder is trying ot get through hwer, you can grab the chosen firearm and scream "Drop" ( having previously told your wife that when she hears that word she is to drop to the floor without question) Thereafter light the *&%$^# up. If you are in the country where nobody will hear the shots, drag the intruder into the bathroom and put him in the tub ao bleed out. Then cut him up (quarters will be fine) and then feed the parts through the wood chipper. After it's just clean up-remember clorox is your friend.

What's wrong with a gator hole?

 

[sigp220.45]

Beretta 92, safety on, and a flashlight next to it. Flashlights mounted on guns means you are by definition pointing a loaded gun at something without knowing what it is. I’m just gonna turn on the lights.

My main line of defense is actually Randy, a devoted 125 pound Rottweiler who dearly loves 10 people in the world and hates the other 11 billion with a passion.

My first indication of trouble will be barking and screaming. I’m not gonna hide behind the bed and call 911 because the cops will show up and shoot Randy. Randy and I will sort it out together and then make the call.

Randy is very good at his job. Once he came to my side of the bed and made his quiet “how how how” sound that doesn’t wake my wife. Usually it means he wants to go in the back yard and look at the 3am sky and eventually pee. This time he went to the front window instead and made a “check this out” motion with his big head. There was an ambulance down the street with its lights on. I told him it was ok and he went and laid down. Another time it was a big mule deer buck standing next to my rig.

A poster once responded to my Randy story by saying he would be defeated by a chicken drumstick soaked in Benadryl. I still laugh about that.

 

[SS336]

Like Sigp220.45 I too have a dog that is always on guard and ready to attack.




But when that fails I resort to this.

 

[Texchappy]

My big problem is my attack dog is less than 4 pounds

 

[Valmet]

Gen3 Glock 21 (200-gr Speer Gold Dots), CRKT Drifter and my Surefire. 870 Police Mag in the closet.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Hubby and I each utilize the same night table choice, our EDC CZ PCRs. Instead of staging and securing multiple different firearms for different specific purposes, we simply transfer our EDC CZs to our night tables when we go to sleep.
That being the case, if awoken by a suspected home break-in/invasion, then we both get our nearby long guns after grabbing the night table handguns.

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[BB57]

I have my 1911 in a bed side holster and this 9mm AR between the nightstand and wall.

This is my preferred truck gun:

 

[M29since14]

I’ve got no dog pictures to add to this, but I do enjoy seeing those of others. Dogs are great security devices. (And even better company.)

My only readily available handgun is an M&P .45. I’d prefer one of my 1911s, but dislike the thought of the cops throwing it in the trunk of their cruiser to rattle around on the way to the station, and/or whatever other atrocities they might commit against it as an evidence piece. The M&P is made to accommodate that kind of rough handling, costs quite a bit less, and is good enough to get the job done. It has a rail-mounted light, which I practice with occasionally, but not enough.

 

[jimmyj]

Entire house wired with C-4
Straight razor on nightstand
Flamethrower next to bed
outside in fenced yard: hungey alligator
on porch: sex starved gorilla
around my residence is only vacant houses (neighbors all abandon their homes and moved far away.)
Post office and emergency services refused to enter this neighborhood.
(they found out about the many mine fields planted in various areas.

 

[haywood]

My bedroom guns.

 

[Buford57]

My EDC. Currently 642 with Speer 135 gr Gold Dot Short Barrel or Shield 9mm with SIG 124 gr V-Crown depending on where I've been that day or am going the next. Small flashlight next to it, MagLight 3 D cell on the floor. Inside night stand Witness .45 with 230 gr. HydraShocks. Wife has Model 67 with 125 gr. Nyclads. Boxer/Walker mix Max in the hallway outside has a mouth full of teeth and a voice to raise the dead.

 

[gmiller0737]

Glock 17 or 19 with Streamlight gets My Vote

 

[kbm6893]

S&W 5906 in a V-Line Slide Away safe bolted to floor. My electronic GunVault unexpectedly failed recently so no more electronic quick access safes.

 

[blues7]

S&W 5906 in a V-Line Slide Away safe bolted to floor. My electronic GunVault unexpectedly failed recently so no more electronic quick access safes.

I have a V-Line "Brute" bolted to the floor. Good safes.

 

[kbm6893]

I have a V-Line "Brute" bolted to the floor. Good safes.

Yeah. I like the Brute, but it wouldn't fit in the space between the bed and the nightstand. I also like the slide-out feature. I have a Fort Knox box in the closet. Bolted, of course.