Do You Carry In...

Absolutelly.
A friend told he about his police officer neighbor telling him that he was sitting in his living room watching tv one evening, while having a beer. His department issued pistol was in another room. All at once his from door was kicked open and he was confronted by an uzi wielding guy, who was "high" on something. The guy screams "GIVE ME A BEER!" The neighbor said he went to the fridge (followed by the drugee) and grabbed what remained of the six-pack by the plastic ring and handed it to the guy. The guy then ran out of the house....beer in one hand, uzi in the other!
That's when my friend decided to move.
 
I do, and I teach it.

Home invasions and car jacking are increasing throughout the country.

I teach a woman's firearm safety and self defense class. I push protection from Home Invasions and Car Jacking.

Drawing and firing while setting on a couch or recliner, from the dinner table, From the kitchen sink. From the bed.

In cars they draw and shoot from the driver's seat while wearing seat belts.

A gun on the night stand is useless while you're setting on the couch. It does you no good while you're cooking or eating dinner.

Many say they stash guns all over the house. Many of my students are mothers of small children. A gun in the pocket if much safer then guns scattered through out the house when you're worried about kids getting them.

First thing I tell them is my class is not a Shooting Class, but a Self Defense Class. There is a difference.

I teach other weird stuff that makes many firearms instructors cringe. When was the last time you saw a pistol defense class that teaches drawing from a diaper bag while playing tug-of-war with a baby stroller. I make the girls shoot with one hand 95% of the time. To demonstrate this I have a rag doll, about 3 ft tall. The ladies have to draw and fire while pulling the doll behind them for protection.

I do several other scenarios but you get the idea.

I get ideas for my classes from the news, and based on my 20 years experience as a cop.

Some are going to chime in and say "if your neighbor hood is that bad move". There is no safe place. People would say that little town (gated community) north of Cody WY is safe. Crime stats bear that out. Tell that to the three people killed in a home invasion because the bad guys wanted the Mercedes so the could go to Denver.

I read a recent case (forgot where) where the bandits shot and killed an 18 month old baby in its stroller because the mother didn't have any money to give them during their robbery.

I believe in carrying 24/7, everywhere you can possible carry legally.

I don't care how many guns you have stashed around the house. Think about it, if you're honest with your self you can come up with several times during the day that you'd be more then a few seconds from what ever stashed gun you're close to.

But you need to practice constantly, not on a square range, but from the couch, from the dinner table, from the recliner while playing with your lap top. From the dinner table. It takes a pair of seconds for someone to kick in your door and rush in.
 
On me, not often. Within reach, yes. However: there have been places where I have lived that would justify carrying on me in the house, and I would have had I known 25+ years ago what I know now.

The houses we have now have 6' fences and floodlights, which discourage all but the most serious from bad acts. We also have 2 dogs, one of which is medium sized (70-odd pound Belgian Shepherd) and protective, especially of my wife. The other is medium-large (117 at last vet visit, a rottXFila). His temperament is toward the harsh extreme of the Fila, and he is not only genetically intolerant of strangers, but violent in his hatred. Defense is a layered system. With the physical barrier to slow down or discourage most, and a dog who would kill a stranger faster than a high school football team would kill a pizza, I suspect that the likely need to employ a firearm is substantially lower than might otherwise be.

If there were kids or other less responsible persons in the house (and as you can guess, we do not have visitors), then the right thing would be to wear a gun to keep unauthorized persons from having access. A gun that is locked up is simply not useful in an emergency situation, and I cannot think of a circumstance in which that would be a sound choice, especially compared to carrying it on your person.
 
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Another thing about carrying while in the house is that you're sure to have it when you walk out the front door. But if you don't...
When the neighbor knocks on the door asking for help starting her car, do you always arm yourself before leaving? Getting the mail? Quick last minute trip to the store for a needed dinner item? On and on and on.... Am I the only one who has forgot or didn't bother to carry?
 
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Phil: Answer the door? What's that?:D

It has been several years since anyone could get to the door, and it was several years before then that I last opened it to anyone but the pizza driver. I yell through it.
 
Yup. Get a good, stiff non-leather gun belt(I use an S.O.E.) and you don't even need belt loops. I could carry commando if I so chose to.
 
No, I don't but I keep one handy. Yiogo
 
I'm more likely to be carrying when at home than I am out and about. If the holster is uncomfortable, find a new one. I know folks say a gun on your person is supposed to be comforting not comfortable but I disagree. I want to be perfectly comfortable carrying it all the time. I started only in the house with an unloaded revolver to get used to it. Then loaded and now it's on me all the time I am home but occasionally not when I go out and about. Still haven't mastered the get it into the safe in the car when I need to go in to the Post Office.

In the scenarios we've had where I really wanted a gun I needed it right then and right now and not locked up or a few steps away. So I carry all the time on the farm.
 
I do carry at home most of the time. If im not carrying, it will either be on my lap/counter top/sofa or the sink counter. Cant really think of a time i dont have one on me or withing arms distance.
 
sigp220.45 said:
Nope. There's one nearby, but I'm not going to walk around my house carrying a gun. I carry it all day at work.
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I keep a .32 Seecamp in my pocket just in case... it's so small and light I often forget about it which is the problem... the more appropriate guns are close enough
 
kraigwy said:
Drawing and firing while setting on a couch or recliner, from the dinner table, From the kitchen sink. From the bed.

In cars they draw and shoot from the driver's seat while wearing seat belts.
...

I teach other weird stuff that makes many firearms instructors cringe.
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I wish more instructors did this... I run into a lot of "instructors" doing what I do, but you sound like an actual INSTRUCTOR... kudos
 
I keep my flashlight gun on my night stand, and my carry gun in a location in case I run through 17rds from my FLG. If I am on the couch or anywhere in the house, my gun is within arm's reach, living in a bad neighborhood in Detroit will do that to ya.

Ok, so here's the next question. Spare magazines, keep them fully loaded? Keep a few loaded?
 
unbrkn;137339057Spare magazines said:
I keep 2 speed loaders and 2 speed strips loaded but they are not always on me. If not on my body they are locked in the bedside safe.
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I guess some of you taking the original question too literally since I see responses like "no I don't want to carry 24/7"

Really?

For God's sake, who carries "on" 24/7 ???

I assume you will disarm yourself while in the shower or laying in a bathtub or using your swimming pool and of course while sleeping.
IMHO If you don't have the common sense to do that you shouldn't be carrying a gun...

Question is about if you're at the dinner table around 7 pm or while watching TV at 9 pm on a work day's evening, or while standing in front of your BBQ on a nice Sunday cooking hot dogs in your backyard at 2pm....

Simply, when you're at home, do you have it on you or do you generally take it off and put it away (whether a foot away or next room away)?

I assume that was the purpose of the question.
But again I may be wrong, it won't be the first time!:rolleyes:

My answer to the original question is a simple "yes".
 
Though I do believe you're waaaaay overthinking this, I would love to witness the range time for these shooting sequences. :rolleyes:

kraigwy said:
I do, and I teach it.
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I teach a woman's firearm safety and self defense class. I push protection from Home Invasions and Car Jacking.

Drawing and firing while setting on a couch or recliner, from the dinner table, From the kitchen sink. From the bed.

In cars they draw and shoot from the driver's seat while wearing seat belts.

...

I teach other weird stuff that makes many firearms instructors cringe. When was the last time you saw a pistol defense class that teaches drawing from a diaper bag while playing tug-of-war with a baby stroller. I make the girls shoot with one hand 95% of the time. To demonstrate this I have a rag doll, about 3 ft tall. The ladies have to draw and fire while pulling the doll behind them for protection.
...
I read a recent case (forgot where) where the bandits shot and killed an 18 month old baby in its stroller because the mother didn't have any money to give them during their robbery. (No, the mother did that.) :mad:
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But you need to practice constantly, not on a square range, but from the couch, from the dinner table, from the recliner while playing with your lap top. From the dinner table. It takes a pair of seconds for someone to kick in your door and rush in.
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You're not wrong, Cap'n. There is at least one Forum member who professes to putting his/her gun in a baggie whilst in the shower...with the gun. And based on specific replies, there are members who do, in fact, carry 24/7...but do reckon they don't sleep with it.

Be safe.


Capt.Jim said:
I guess some of you taking the original question too literally since I see responses like "no I don't want to carry 24/7"

Really?

For God's sake, who carries "on" 24/7 ???

I assume you will disarm yourself while in the shower or laying in a bathtub or using your swimming pool and of course while sleeping.
IMHO If you don't have the common sense to do that you shouldn't be carrying a gun...

Question is about if you're at the dinner table around 7 pm or while watching TV at 9 pm on a work day's evening, or while standing in front of your BBQ on a nice Sunday cooking hot dogs in your backyard at 2pm....

Simply, when you're at home, do you have it on you or do you generally take it off and put it away (whether a foot away or next room away)?

I assume that was the purpose of the question.
But again I may be wrong, it won't be the first time!:rolleyes:

My answer to the original question is a simple "yes".
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Capt.Jim said:
Simply, when you're at home, do you have it on you or do you generally take it off and put it away (whether a foot away or next room away)?
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Nearly always on me. I have learned to be careful about using my strong side hip to shut the fridge or oven door though ;)
 
No but I do keep firearms strategically placed throughout the house. ;)
 
So im curious since we are on this subject. How many of u non LEO/Security/Military etc are allowed to carry on ur job.

My boss told me i may get fired if i show up to work without my weapon. So everyday I go to work a bring a few pieces with me. =-)
 
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ChattanoogaPhil said:
What about people who sleepwalk?
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After 6 weeks fighting to retake Manila in 1945 (The Japanese did unspeakable things to the civilians) my father started sleepwalking. The Army took his rifle and gave him a teletype machine. He worked for Douglas MacArthur until the war ended. He would walk in his sleep occasionally for the rest of his life. He never talked about what happened in Manila.

"Subjected to incessant pounding and facing certain death or capture, the beleaguered Japanese troops took out their anger and frustration on the civilians caught in the crossfire, committing multiple acts of severe brutality, which later would be known as the Manila Massacre. Violent mutilations, rapes, and massacres on the populace accompanied the battle for control of the city, which lay practically in ruins. General Yama****a was subsequently blamed for the massacres and hanged for war crimes in 1946 even though he had no responsibility for the battle itself."
 
Smitty357 said:
My boss told me i may get fired if i show up to work without my weapon.
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I am the boss. I carry all the time when at work, nearly all the time outside it now that I'm finally more comfortable with my concealment. Still can't handle the Post Office issues.
 
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