I'm brand new and yet it feels that way to me as well. I am much more comfortable with my sidearm on than not. No worries, I just have to remember to store it properly when I need to go into the post office. Otherwise it's on me.
Carrying A Gun At Home
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I'm brand new and yet it feels that way to me as well. I am much more comfortable with my sidearm on than not. No worries, I just have to remember to store it properly when I need to go into the post office. Otherwise it's on me.
I worked in the garage organizing some new tools, cut some limbs out back with my new Stihl Pole Saw (christmas present), and helped my nephew move into a new apartment just down the street from my house. Kel Tec P32 in my front pocket all day. Relaxing on the back porch watching the bowl games and surfing the net. Governor on the table next to me, and a Mossberg pistol grip riot gun within reach. The actual guns vary regularly, but something is always around.
.455_Hunter
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Unless I am in the shower or in bed, I have a pocket friend with be at all times. It might be just a NAA .22 mag Mini, but it's something.
Okay, my house is as secure as almost anyone's - deadbolts, locked door handles, dogs, and a door security bar in place front and back if I am inside, plus it has an alarm that I generally keep on. It will take some effort to "invade". However, color me paranoid, I don't care, I am never without a firearm on my person or within easy reach. Bathroom? I have one there, too. Read John Taffin's recent column in GUNS magazine on home defense guns - I am NOT the only one to recognize the vulnerability of the bathroom. It's hidden, it's kept dry, it's loaded, it can be reached if an invader hasn't breached and caught me in the shower.
But before I go on let me make a separate point. Some folks don't have as many guns as some of us. If you're a fan of guns but haven't, for whatever reason, bought more and more of them over the years then your plan is different because it has to be. No issues with that - but if you're covered up in firearms, well, even undressed you can have one available if you so choose. It's all personal - what works for me isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Asleep? Revolver within easy reach. Been that way for close to 40 years.
Shotguns? Two in one hall closet, a third in a bedroom closet, and a .44 caliber lever gun in there, too. Why? Because I can. Is it a necessity? Probably not. But I have the guns so why not?
Living room? Revolver in a cabinet.
So they're all reachable - and if I'm dressed my 642 is in my pocket. Otherwise, it's somewhere reachable, too. But what if I'm in my t-shirt and sweats, or similar sleep-time clothing?
Double action .22 Magnum derringer in my robe pocket or little Beretta 950BS. Easy to do and thus I am never without a gun.
Paranoid? Probably. Scared? Not one bit.
YMMV
***GRJ***
But before I go on let me make a separate point. Some folks don't have as many guns as some of us. If you're a fan of guns but haven't, for whatever reason, bought more and more of them over the years then your plan is different because it has to be. No issues with that - but if you're covered up in firearms, well, even undressed you can have one available if you so choose. It's all personal - what works for me isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Asleep? Revolver within easy reach. Been that way for close to 40 years.
Shotguns? Two in one hall closet, a third in a bedroom closet, and a .44 caliber lever gun in there, too. Why? Because I can. Is it a necessity? Probably not. But I have the guns so why not?
Living room? Revolver in a cabinet.
So they're all reachable - and if I'm dressed my 642 is in my pocket. Otherwise, it's somewhere reachable, too. But what if I'm in my t-shirt and sweats, or similar sleep-time clothing?
Double action .22 Magnum derringer in my robe pocket or little Beretta 950BS. Easy to do and thus I am never without a gun.
Paranoid? Probably. Scared? Not one bit.
YMMV
***GRJ***
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
No. If I'm one step outside my door I'm armed. At home my carry gun is within reach, but not on my person. I don't carry one to the bathroom in the middle of the night, or while drinking my get-the-heart-started first mug of coffee in the morning.
Some of you will consider that to be near-criminal complacency, but at my advanced age I have no desire to live every moment at Condition Orange. I don't chase women anymore, so jealous husbands or boyfriends are no longer a source of concern.
Some of you will consider that to be near-criminal complacency, but at my advanced age I have no desire to live every moment at Condition Orange. I don't chase women anymore, so jealous husbands or boyfriends are no longer a source of concern.
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I am with Iggy on this one. If I am wearing pants, I am also "wearing," if you know what I mean.
Via Clint Smith:
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for."
Several have remarked about others being in the house. My personal belief is that if your personal weapon is not on your person, it should be locked up so that unauthorized users do not have access. A good reason to carry at home.
Via Clint Smith:
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for."
Several have remarked about others being in the house. My personal belief is that if your personal weapon is not on your person, it should be locked up so that unauthorized users do not have access. A good reason to carry at home.
Defence.....
Moving into 'better' neighborhoods costs money.
Moving into 'better' neighborhoods costs money.
andrewcdub
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I've been carrying my shield 9 in a galco stow n go around the house for a while now. Even in gym shorts it still carries well.
Tracer_Bullet
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I've had a few suspicious/strange people show up on my doorstep over the years (especially when I had a dumpster in the yard when my old siding was being replaced), so yes, I'm always armed or within easy reach of a gun and I carry a reload.
Kframerbluvr
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Always have a J-frame .38 in my pocket at home and more often than not, carry a full size belt gun of some sort, plus at least one reload for each. You just never know...
Arik
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My home attire is a t shirt and sweat pants so no holster or gun. Don't like wearing jeans at home, not too comfortable lounging around in jeans and a holster. However I have a gun near by.
Waywatcher
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No for me as well.
Locked doors and a shotgun in a ShotLock are good enough for me.
Locked doors and a shotgun in a ShotLock are good enough for me.
I don't, but I live in a small place. 2-3 guns upstairs, 1-2 downstairs depending on where certain ones happen to be at a given time. My pistol is usually within arms reach. No kids so when I'm home none are locked up and all can be accessed quickly. My girlfriend who I live with can shoot also so if she's home then the bad guys will have two firearms throwing lead their way. If I'm not home she know's where every gun is at and can handle shooting all but one of them so she's good to go as well.
Shooting Padre
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Two words - Home Invasion- . I don't want to have to go into my safe or anywhere else for my gun when I go to see who's at the door, and they are not someone nice! The enemy attacks when you least expect it. Yea, I carry at home.
One old geezer to another.
I live in Colorado
And I actually don't have heat (per se) in my apartment.
My neighbors blast their heat so much that my apartment stays at around 65 all winter long with out me having to turn on the heat more than once or twice a year.
This is a common response when I post about my neighborhood and I don't have any hard feelings reading it.
If I haven’t spelled it out guys I don’t make a lot of money, any place that I could afford to live would be the same neighborhood in a different part of town.
Knowing that there are advantages to this neighbor hood, I’m close enough to work that I can ride my bike; I can throw a rock and hit my church from here.
The management here is first rate, my wife has physical issues and on the days that she’s not up to walking our dogs they do it for her free of charge. They also are happy to carry groceries upstairs for her if I’m not home. I’m not going to find that in any other apartment complex in town.
Finally I am absolutely convinced that the apartments we live in are the apartments God wants us to live in and until I’m convinced that HE wants us to move I’m not moving
