Sleeping with a gun

BarbC

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I am wondering if there is any comfortable yet safe way to sleep with a gun.

I will be traveling with someone else and I want to keep the gun on my person at night and not in my purse or suitcase or on the nightstand while sleeping.

What do you recommend?
 
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I have put them between the mattress and inner spring for the last 100 years or so. When at a motel I just usualy lay it on the night stand or in the drawer ontop the giddion bible or the book of mormon.
Just dont forget it!
 
Depending on your sleep habits, in a holster with a covered trigger guard and a snapped safety strap, under your pillow, might be safe and comfortable. Many years ago, I used to sleep with a Model 40 under my pillow, but I wouldn't do that now, because I'm always fooling around with my pillow, getting it just right under my neck, and I change position a lot during the night.

I suppose you could even put it in a zippered case of some sort, under your pillow or elsewhere.
 
Under the mattress might be good, or if you want to keep it on you, you might try an ankle holster.
 
Well, since I don't have a wife to sleep with anymore, I usually have my Model 60 under the adjacent pillow, pointing in the other direction. I never go to that side of the bed, and the butt is positioned exactly where it needs to be for me to grab it in the night. I got to thinking about the nightstand, and I sleep so sound that someone could reach in there and have it turned on me before I would know it. At least if it's under the pillow, I might stand a better chance of waking up.
 
I have slept with J frames in a shoulder holster while camping. One doesn't roll around in a sleeping bag much so it really wasn't that uncomfortable.
 
Either a Ruger LCP, Charter Arms Tracker 357, or a Smith and Wesson Model 28-2...under my pillow, every night.

If someone tries to enter my window at 02:00, then it is the handgun...
If a prowler is looking through my window or is on my porce, then I go for something more serious...a Winchester Defender 12 gauge. A loud rack of the slide has worked "to remind them they have a pressing appointment elsewhere."
 
all the time...damn lazyboy will get you...belly band maybe if you don't want your companion to know...

Sip and Caj...always good for a chuckle...
 
There needs to be a comment for Sip that involves a bigger bore but I feel the need to tread very lightly.:p
 
Be extremely careful!!!

More people leave handguns in motel rooms than anything else...

Most of them are out of their normal behavioral patterns.:eek:

And - out of sight...out of mind!!

Be sure you take it with you every morning!:)
 
I prefer sleeping with my fiance than a gun.

Seriously, I don't think there is a comfortable way to sleep with a gun on you physically. I would opt for the nightstand as well.
 
So that's the trick! I need to change my name to "Gun", then maybe someone will sleep with me!!!!!!:D
Steve
 
People dream.
Sometimes, those dreams are related to real life "stressful" occurences.
I'm a restless, light sleeper, and move sometimes because old injuries hurt. Therefore, I was always afraid my hand would close on a gun butt, and I'd shoot up the place in my sleep. So, it was just CLOSE, but not IN bed.
As time went on, and when travelling in particular, I devised this-
Gun in zipper case (rug). NOT a slick, vinyl type that slides around and falls between mattress and headboard, but a fabric rug. Zipper has to work smoothly.
Take two large safety pins. Most fabric rugs have a tab at one or both ends. Simply do what it takes to pin it to the sheet and mattress cover in the handiest position- where your hand will fall beside the shoulder.
 
That's a good one Lee,I guess the main thing for me is to be fully conscious before getting my hand on the weapon of choice.

D.G.
 
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