sipowicz
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4 year old and a 10 month old in the house....A few guns are kept loaded in the safe in the bedroom closet....it's open at night when I go to bed and locked when I get up....
Do you keep a mag loaded at home near your gun?
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Texaspass
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I have several guns stashed in places in each room & loaded. If BG comes into house anywhere he will be knee deep in trouble in short order!
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Loaded with 1 in the chamber and a spare mag fully loaded. I was raised in a law enforcement family and guns were always loaded and available for use due to death threats to family.I always treat every gun as a loaded gun , just the way I was raised !
This is the SAFEST way to store a gun that is not in use.
Leaving a loaded gun around the house is dangerous if it gets stolen or used by an unuathorized person.
Your approach is VALID until you carry it or store it in a way that is accessible to AUTHORIZED users and not to others.
Cruiser RN
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Simple answer HELL YES !!!!!!!!!!!!.I don't have any youngsters in my home so there is a suprise if anyone breaks in and I am home.Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.Remember Police have no legal or constitutional duty to protect you,they are not proactive but rather reactive so it is the citizens duty and right to protect themselves.When I am not at home they are locked in a safe,when I am home one is ready in a quick access safe.Such safes are readily available and are inexpensive and give a measure of safety preventing unauthorized access while granting quick deployment.......God Bless........Mike
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Crazy K38
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I actually keep a loaded gun next to my loaded gun, best way to reload is not to have to, go to BUG and keep shooting
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No kids in my house. I keep the MP9C loaded with one in the chamber, discreetly secured but very accessible. Two extra mags are readily available but if ten rounds doesn't get the job done I am in serious trouble. My daily carry/truck gun is the Bersa 380. Again full mag eight rounds, in with one in the pipe and the safety engaged. Second magazine is always in reach. I like the idea of keeping the 12 gauge loaded but not one in the chamber. Nothing like the sound of chambering a round to get the BG's attention.
safearm
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My wife's (formerly my) Detective Special sits on the nightstand. My 3913 is loaded and locked, with an extra magazine, in my go bag.
TNDixieGirl
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I keep mine loaded with one in the chamber at ALL times. If I leave the house, the gun goes with me. Otherwise, it remains on the nightstand. Until someone knocks on the door, then I put it on me again.
If other folks are in the house like repairmen or guests, especially guests with children, the gun is on my person.
If other folks are in the house like repairmen or guests, especially guests with children, the gun is on my person.
Pasifikawv
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My primary carry firearm stays on my side with a full mag and a round chambered until its time to go to bed. I have a very comfortable IWB holster, so I just keep on even while just hanging out at home doing chores in the evening.
When its time for bed, the weapon stays loaded and holstered. I slide it under my night stand where it is easily accessible in the event of a night-time intruder. It goes back on my person the next morning.
I don't have kids in the house, but I keep my other (non-primary carry) sidearms unloaded and locked up as a deterrance if there is a break-in while I am away. I don't have a large enouhg safe for my rifles so they just stay unloaded in the corner of a closet.
My 12ga (best home defense firearm IMO) is currently in disrepair. I used to keep it next to the the bed at night with shells in the tube but none chambered.
When its time for bed, the weapon stays loaded and holstered. I slide it under my night stand where it is easily accessible in the event of a night-time intruder. It goes back on my person the next morning.
I don't have kids in the house, but I keep my other (non-primary carry) sidearms unloaded and locked up as a deterrance if there is a break-in while I am away. I don't have a large enouhg safe for my rifles so they just stay unloaded in the corner of a closet.
My 12ga (best home defense firearm IMO) is currently in disrepair. I used to keep it next to the the bed at night with shells in the tube but none chambered.
smidrow
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I have multiple loaded M&P 40's, all full size, hidden thru our home and out buildings. You do not know where you will be if and when a threat would suddenly appear.
The reason for them all being the same is for my wife's ease of use. She can shoot very well but is not as much of a gun nut as myself so consistency in the guns function helps her.
Kids are all grown but very knowledgeable in fire arm safety and use.
The reason for them all being the same is for my wife's ease of use. She can shoot very well but is not as much of a gun nut as myself so consistency in the guns function helps her.
Kids are all grown but very knowledgeable in fire arm safety and use.
357_mag_mama
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Pistol and revolvers in the bedstead safe with loaded mags and speedloaders next to them.
Spotteddog
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I cannot remember a single time having a weapon loaded near or on me, that did NOT have at least one reload near instantly available to it? And that is said in spades about at home! There, at least three reloads near what ever type is being used.
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I do have toddlers in the house, but always keep a loaded gun handy, either on my person, or in several gun vaults around the house. Spare ammo is always with the gun.
I'm curious about those who mention that they put their guns away if guests or service personnel are in the house. What is the rationale for this?
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I'm curious about those who mention that they put their guns away if guests or service personnel are in the house. What is the rationale for this?
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I keep three loaded magazines next to my home defence pistol. I also keep a loaded magazine in the gun, and one in the chamber. All of the magazine springs have been replaced with Wolf +10%, and I don't worry about them being compressed for long periods of time.
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I have one semi-auto loaded and in a secured holster mounted to the bed frame. In the nightstand drawer there are 3 loaded magazines for it. The 12ga shotgun is under the bed as well.
Smitty500Mag
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You'd be a lot better off using a ball bat than an unloaded gun for protection that is unless the criminals in your part of the country will wait for you to load your gun before they break in.
Smitty
bkp3gen
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This is difficult because there are 2 schools of thought but you hit on the one that is what I consider most important "If someone breaks in, how convenient will it be for me to arm myself?"
I have no children at home and I keep a pistol with with me or near me that has 14 rounds in it. If I need more than that, I would have to go to the safe where everything is loaded.
With children at home I would probably rethink my arrangement.
How safe is the area you live in, high crime or not. Rural setting? Suburbia?
A handgun safe in your closet is always a good idea.....top shelf and not too visible.
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Wickahoney
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Sitting here at the computer in the den there is a loaded Model 19 with a speed loader sitting about 2 feet away on top of the CRT.
There is a loaded 1911, cocked and locked with the safety on and a spare mag in the living room, on top of the entertainment center, about 6 feet from my easy chair.
There is another cocked and locked 1911 with the safety on and a spar mag in the night stand on my side of the bed.
I live just about as rural as anbody in the lower 48 and crime simply isn't an issue, or at least one would think so. Then a BG showed up and tried to cancel my ticket. That was two, almost 3 years ago.
Now the gate is locked up at the main dirt road/only road in here and that's 8 miles away. If you want to hike in or cut the fene etc I guess you could. If there is anybody home and there are 9 people here at the headquarters, then there are dogs that love to bark, around all the time. We have a much lower threat response than before.
We are much more cognisant of any possible threat than we were and yes, we had gotten fat, lazy and careless in the 10 years or since I'd retired.
It won't happen again.
When I was a active LEO and had growing kids in the home there were loaded guns in the house. Mostly up high and out of sight but there. My kids were well trained and very very aware that all guns were loaded. In fact they knew "All guns are always loaded, anywhere."
When my son was 7 and my daughter was 5 they wanted to ride down to the 7-11 about a half mile away from where we lived at the time. They came home without the candy and informed me they had found a "Deputies Gun". We got in the truck and went towards the store where my son showed me the loaded Glock in the holster with sure enough a Deputy Sheriff's badge pinned on the holster. The only thing my son had done was cover it with leaves "SO other kids didn't find it till I could tell you" and hurried home to tell dad.
Turns out the guy was UC and had put the gun on the roof of his car while he was putting stuff in it and then driven off with the pistol on the roof.
If my kids had company then everything went into the safe till they left.
As stated by others, an unloaded gun really doesn't serve much of a purpose when the chips are down and the ball is rolling.
Funny, I never had a problem off duty or at home as a LEO in some of the countries most urban areas. But after I retired to the middle of nowhere somebody tries to shoot me. I know that the only reason he didn't just shoot me at the time was I was packing open carry when I rolled back to the house. It wasn't till he was leaving that he tried it.
Sorry, but I just don't think when the stuff hits the fan the BG is going to give you the luxury of getting your one and only defense gun and then going to wherever you store the ammo and loading it and then.........way too much time.
Children can be taught proper gun safety. I do have to admit the my revolvers and pistols REALLY look like guns and not toys. The other day I was in town and saw the new Ruger 380 for the first time and it did frighten me because I can invision kids getting dead with them BECAUSE they truly look like toy guns. I would never own one for that reason alone. Our 7 year old grandson lives with us most of the time and he knows about guns and is well trained and I have the utmost faith and confidence in him but I also believe that some guns are just too damned tempting/attractive to small kids.
RWT
There is a loaded 1911, cocked and locked with the safety on and a spare mag in the living room, on top of the entertainment center, about 6 feet from my easy chair.
There is another cocked and locked 1911 with the safety on and a spar mag in the night stand on my side of the bed.
I live just about as rural as anbody in the lower 48 and crime simply isn't an issue, or at least one would think so. Then a BG showed up and tried to cancel my ticket. That was two, almost 3 years ago.
Now the gate is locked up at the main dirt road/only road in here and that's 8 miles away. If you want to hike in or cut the fene etc I guess you could. If there is anybody home and there are 9 people here at the headquarters, then there are dogs that love to bark, around all the time. We have a much lower threat response than before.
We are much more cognisant of any possible threat than we were and yes, we had gotten fat, lazy and careless in the 10 years or since I'd retired.
It won't happen again.
When I was a active LEO and had growing kids in the home there were loaded guns in the house. Mostly up high and out of sight but there. My kids were well trained and very very aware that all guns were loaded. In fact they knew "All guns are always loaded, anywhere."
When my son was 7 and my daughter was 5 they wanted to ride down to the 7-11 about a half mile away from where we lived at the time. They came home without the candy and informed me they had found a "Deputies Gun". We got in the truck and went towards the store where my son showed me the loaded Glock in the holster with sure enough a Deputy Sheriff's badge pinned on the holster. The only thing my son had done was cover it with leaves "SO other kids didn't find it till I could tell you" and hurried home to tell dad.
Turns out the guy was UC and had put the gun on the roof of his car while he was putting stuff in it and then driven off with the pistol on the roof.
If my kids had company then everything went into the safe till they left.
As stated by others, an unloaded gun really doesn't serve much of a purpose when the chips are down and the ball is rolling.
Funny, I never had a problem off duty or at home as a LEO in some of the countries most urban areas. But after I retired to the middle of nowhere somebody tries to shoot me. I know that the only reason he didn't just shoot me at the time was I was packing open carry when I rolled back to the house. It wasn't till he was leaving that he tried it.
Sorry, but I just don't think when the stuff hits the fan the BG is going to give you the luxury of getting your one and only defense gun and then going to wherever you store the ammo and loading it and then.........way too much time.
Children can be taught proper gun safety. I do have to admit the my revolvers and pistols REALLY look like guns and not toys. The other day I was in town and saw the new Ruger 380 for the first time and it did frighten me because I can invision kids getting dead with them BECAUSE they truly look like toy guns. I would never own one for that reason alone. Our 7 year old grandson lives with us most of the time and he knows about guns and is well trained and I have the utmost faith and confidence in him but I also believe that some guns are just too damned tempting/attractive to small kids.
RWT
