House Guns In Strategic Locations
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"With a gun to his head" Massad Ayoob article that explains some of the extreme disadvantages to having gun stashed around your home rather than on your person.
American Handgunner With a Gun To Your Head: The Larry Goldstein Incident - American Handgunner You are surrounded by hidden, loaded handguns. Unfortunately, one of your kidnappers is holding a .357 Magnum to the base of your skull.
American Handgunner With a Gun To Your Head: The Larry Goldstein Incident - American Handgunner You are surrounded by hidden, loaded handguns. Unfortunately, one of your kidnappers is holding a .357 Magnum to the base of your skull.
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I find it easier to pocket carry a small pistol around instead of stashing guns around the house. My s&w 340pd basically never leaves my pocket. Hopefully, my dog gives me a heads up and enough time to get to a rifle or larger pistol. If not, I still have 5 shots of .357mag
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blues7
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I don't stash guns around the house. Worst case scenario, someone breaking in could use them against you.
I have a firearm either on my person, or near my person.
At bedtime I have one on the nightstand and one stashed in a location which my wife is to report to per our agreed upon plan in the event of a home invasion.
I have a firearm either on my person, or near my person.
At bedtime I have one on the nightstand and one stashed in a location which my wife is to report to per our agreed upon plan in the event of a home invasion.
Years ago when I was providing training for concealed weapons license
I heard a story from an older lady. She was in her recliner after dinner
one evening. She heard footsteps at the front walk. Then a big bang.
A large man had kicked her door open and came in to her living room.
She told me he started right toward her. She had her "little .44" right
on a table beside her. She told me she shot him. Did you hit him i asked.
Yes, in the foot. He is limping around out at the pen and has rumored to
say he is going to get even when he gets out.
That is when I started keeping guns in strategic places. I concentrated
on places I spend the most time. In the living room, next to my recliner
I have a hidden, but easy to reach, snub nosed .38 Sp. with regular
pressure hollow points. In my office, down the hall, I have another snub
nosed .38 Sp. with regular pressure hollow points, hidden in easy reach
under my desk. And a third in my bedroom in a quick accessible, but
secret, location.
BTW We also have a couple of inside dogs that bark at the drop
of a hat anywhere near the house. Good early warning system.
I heard a story from an older lady. She was in her recliner after dinner
one evening. She heard footsteps at the front walk. Then a big bang.
A large man had kicked her door open and came in to her living room.
She told me he started right toward her. She had her "little .44" right
on a table beside her. She told me she shot him. Did you hit him i asked.
Yes, in the foot. He is limping around out at the pen and has rumored to
say he is going to get even when he gets out.
That is when I started keeping guns in strategic places. I concentrated
on places I spend the most time. In the living room, next to my recliner
I have a hidden, but easy to reach, snub nosed .38 Sp. with regular
pressure hollow points. In my office, down the hall, I have another snub
nosed .38 Sp. with regular pressure hollow points, hidden in easy reach
under my desk. And a third in my bedroom in a quick accessible, but
secret, location.
BTW We also have a couple of inside dogs that bark at the drop
of a hat anywhere near the house. Good early warning system.
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OLDSTER
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We live in a "walk-out" ( main and lower.). I keep one bedside on main, and one on lower next to the bar. We live a retiree neighborhood, so even though a "safe" area, we could also be targets for young thugs/thieves .
I have 13 grandkids so everything but one on me is locked up. Never know when they will drop by.
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A lot of different opinions about this topic. I recommend added security cameras and home alarms for early detection. Also if you keep several firearms stashed in the house put them up when little ones visit. I see nothing wrong with loaded guns in the house in fact I grew up in a home with loaded guns and I'm still alive.
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I think it's better, and easier, to just keep a gun on your person. I think there is something to be said for having another firearm, maybe a long gun of some kind, in your designated safe room.
I'm not against the idea of stashing guns around the house strategically, but you also have to think about securing them. For example, if you can get a bunch of small, fast-access pistol safes with Simplex locks (V-Line comes to mind) all programmed to the same code, it could balance security with accessibility. My main concern would be when you're out of the house. Gathering up all the guns and locking them up when you leave and putting them back in place when you return could be an option, though I can see how that can be tedious, especially with your plan.
Of course, this is also assuming you've established layers of security to 1) make your house look like a hard target, 2) slow down anyone who does decide to break in, and 3) give you enough warning to secure yourselves in the safe room and call 911. Not to mention overall awareness of your environment when going home and leaving (it's not unheard of for criminals to follow people home and rob them).
And as anonymous as the Internet can be, I'm not comfortable with the idea of sharing specific details of one's home security plan on a public Internet site. I've taken my own measures and formulated (and practiced) my own security plans, but I'm not going to share them.
Just my opinion.
I'm not against the idea of stashing guns around the house strategically, but you also have to think about securing them. For example, if you can get a bunch of small, fast-access pistol safes with Simplex locks (V-Line comes to mind) all programmed to the same code, it could balance security with accessibility. My main concern would be when you're out of the house. Gathering up all the guns and locking them up when you leave and putting them back in place when you return could be an option, though I can see how that can be tedious, especially with your plan.
Of course, this is also assuming you've established layers of security to 1) make your house look like a hard target, 2) slow down anyone who does decide to break in, and 3) give you enough warning to secure yourselves in the safe room and call 911. Not to mention overall awareness of your environment when going home and leaving (it's not unheard of for criminals to follow people home and rob them).
And as anonymous as the Internet can be, I'm not comfortable with the idea of sharing specific details of one's home security plan on a public Internet site. I've taken my own measures and formulated (and practiced) my own security plans, but I'm not going to share them.
Just my opinion.
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I read the article, and I took a few lessons from that encounter.
First, a gun on his person would've been more readily available than the guns he had stashed around the house in this particular incident.
Second, he was caught unaware in an open garage by a couple of guys, at least one of whom was armed and pointing a gun at him. I'm not entirely sure a gun on his person would've helped, unless he could move to cover while drawing.
Third, in the end, the gun he had stashed in his car likely saved his and his wife's lives.
hkcavalier
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Not nuts. We have the bedroom Glock 34 plus a Kel-Tec RDB w/ a Trijicon R34 reflex (no batteries) in case of real trouble (bear, cougar, two legged). Downstairs is the big safe and I keep one loaded 1911 there. All three of these guns are in Condition Three (magazine inserted, empty chamber) and in the case of the RDB and 1911 I leave them on FIRE because it's one less thing to deal with in a true 'split seconds count' emergency. Rack 'em and go.
During the summer my 442 is usually loaded in the safe as well, but now that summer carry is over I'll probably sock it away unloaded.
My wife takes a handgun out with her to feed the critters, just in case trouble comes up the driveway while she's out there. City folks and recent transplants to our area don't understand our methods, but they don't have to. Country folks just nod their heads knowingly.
During the summer my 442 is usually loaded in the safe as well, but now that summer carry is over I'll probably sock it away unloaded.
My wife takes a handgun out with her to feed the critters, just in case trouble comes up the driveway while she's out there. City folks and recent transplants to our area don't understand our methods, but they don't have to. Country folks just nod their heads knowingly.
keith44spl
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It's always prudent to be prepared...
I keep my personal defense handgun on my person.
Got a rifle or two within easy reach as well.
Life out on the rural route, is different from town living.
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I keep my personal defense handgun on my person.
Got a rifle or two within easy reach as well.
Life out on the rural route, is different from town living.
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Lots of answers, pro and con. I'll throw in my 2¢ as well.
I've mentioned before that we are moving soon to our retirement property where nearly everything will be night & day different from where we live now. The inherent safety and security of our current place will be gone and we will be facing security challenges like never before, both in regard to the exposed location of our new place as well as the design of the house. It's necessary that we do this move, but it presents a security nightmare.
So we will do what others have done in similar predicaments. We will have a security system. We will have security lights. We will have cameras. Most importantly, we will have dogs.
Long ago, the good wife and I decided that carrying guns around 24/7/365 in the new place was never going to be practical. Neither is moving the entire contents of my current gun room into our new bedroom. Not going to happen. In fact, we still don't know where the bulk of my collection is going to go.
So the plan is to buy five of these and to deploy them appropriately around the house. In MA, you have to keep your guns "safely stored" and this approach will satisfy the law.
Does it mean I won't ever carry while at home?
Hardly. I will still have my .380 pocket piece when it's practical to carry it. I'll also want something appropriate when I'm out and about on my tractor bush-hogging or otherwise, but that's a different topic for a different time. Bottom line: I go along with the concept of deployed guns depending on one's home security needs.
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But not often.
