Glock 17 is my duty gun and it gets carried off duty as well.
i prefer that if (God forbid) i have to shoot somebody off duty the dept.'s gun gets put in the rust locker instead of my own.
I know what you mean about the "rust locker".
While in my last two years of college, I lived off campus in an apartment complex. It wasn't a dive...but certainly a budget area.
I had a pistol kept in my nightstand. It was mainly for target shooting, plinking and woods carry.
I returned home from class one day and was shocked to see Police cars everywhere. One of my neighbors had a domestic incident with his wife. He was drunk and convinced she was cheating on him and he'd broken into my appartment and taken my pistol. Compounding this was his use of steroids.
Someone saw him and called the Police. They arrived to find him holding his wife in the outside hallway in a headlock while waving the gun around.
One of the Police asked him to put the gun down and was it loaded. Rick, the husband, replied that it was loaded and popped up a round straight upward to proove it.
Somehow they talked him our of the gun and took him down. Both he and his wife, Deborah, survived the incident with only minor physical injuries. Sadly, she stayed with the fool and somehow he never served any time other than his initial booking and psyche eval.
It was a very bizare incident. Both were Army Reservists....he was retired. She was a very attractive gal but seemed powerless to his bullcrap. At 30 years old she never even had a driver's liscence depending soley on him for even basic stuff like transportation.
My gun was taken and I was instructed as to how to recover it later on. I took possesion of the gun once again a few weeks later.....there was a rusted side of the blue barrel.