Nightstand Gun: holstered?

Just curious - do you keep your nightstand gun holstered or is it unholstered? What do you those of you who have children do?

My Glock 17 sits on my nightstand with a round chambered and no holster. My wife knows its loaded and we do not have any children yet and I do not want to fiddle with a holster when I'm jarred from my sleep - my Glock is on the ready if I cannot get to my 870 under the bed easily.

This practice of keeping a chambered and unholstered Glock out will change when we have children.

So holster or no?

XD9 with 32rd mag under the pillow I dont use. No holster, as the gun doesnt fit in there with a flashlight attached.

Just me and my dog. So no worries about kids.

DOH! Double post.

I keep my bedside gun loaded but without a round in the chamber.

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Bedside gun same as carry gun. Glock 19 Gen 2 laying on floor next to bed in Crossbreed.

Full mag, one in the pipe. No safety, no holster.

G29 w/ G20 mag ready to go in the hidden headboard gun drawer. Mossberg 590 Mariner next to the bed as primary with slugs and 00 buck. No kids. My house requires a 72 hour notification before kids can enter as there are far too many sharp objects, loaded weapons and other potentially kid un-friendly items lurking about.

G19, chambered, holstered, no kids.

Often unholstered with pipe or wheel loaded, but occasionally I will leave the gun in the holster.

I live alone, no kids that I'm aware of.

No kids in the house so I feel no need to keep my gun "secured" or "saftied".

I keep my bedside gun (G21) in a nightstand drawer, round in the chamber, in a cheap nylon holster. I maily like the hoster as it keeps the trigger covered while I am groping for the gun in the dark, and also keeps anything from getting inside the trigger guard.

No kids in house
.40 Glock w chamber loaded and holstered. On my wife's side of the bed is her old Colt Diamonback .38 fully loaded no holster.

All of my handguns are holstered, although they're around the house. The gun in my bedroom is a shotgun. Interestingly, while the numbers are close-ish between holstered/not, there is definitley a favor for having a round chambered. I don't carry +1 in my guns, though, I like having the empty spot to place the chambered round if I clear it.

Thing is, two of the three handguns are holstered because the holster keeps it in the position I want. The third is holstered just so nothing gets in the trigger guard without me wanting it in there.

MyGreenGuns, they make holsters designed for a handgun with a light attached.

XD40 w/laser round chambered in a holster next to a flashlight.

I don't like the idea of a chambered gun without a holster next to me at night. Fumbling around in the dark or having a bad dream, I'm a restless sleeper, I like the idea of that trigger being covered.

No kids just a nosey cat.

Unholstered only at night, one in the chamber thumb safety on. Don't wanna grab a trigger reaching for my gun half asleep.

Live alone with my German Shepherd and there's always at least two loaded handguns and a long gun in the master bedroom.

I once awoke (i can do a lot of things while still mostly asleep), holding my loaded gun (due to screams from next door), aiming it at the wall with a family member on the other side. From then on, i started keeping my gun unchambered but still easily available.

G19 no holster, full mag beside pistol. (wifey prefers it that way);)

Desantis Nemesis pocket holster. Loaded and one in the chamber, as it should be. Next to the Surefire flashlight.

G17, unholstered, unchambered. It's in a drawer and I don't want to grab the trigger if I had to reach for it in the middle of the night.

G19 loaded and chambered in crossbreed next to the bed no kids

No kids.
Guns all over the house.

I've got one kid and the bulk of my guns stay in the safe except a couple of non-firing wall hangers and my EDC which is on me if I'm awake. When the house is sleeping it lives holstered cocked and locked on the top self (height of shelf 6 ft height of kid 3ft. It works for now but in the future a bio metric safe will be in order) of the cabinet beside my bed. Before marriage and kids I was a real Bad A#$ and slept with a lumpy pillow under my gun. (and no I did not get it backwards)

When I keep a pistol in the night stand it is unholster and fully loaded. I have children but it's simple. You parent them and teach them. My kids know they don't go in Mommy and Daddys bedroom if we aren't in there. They know not to ever touch a firearm. On top of that they know the dangers of firearms.

I was brought up old fashion. We always had firearms around the house. Rifle by the back door, shotgun in the corner, pistol always somewhere. But we knew not to touch them, if the pistol happen to be out on the table when we was dusting the table, we dust around it and knew darn well the old man would expect the table under the pistol to be untouched.

It's really just about teaching your kids, knowledge is the key. So many parents don't teach their children about firearms, don't take them shooting and that's when children becomes curious and accidents happen.

I like having the gun in the holster, less access to the trigger.

I figure if I wake up, and bad guy's already in the bedroom, well, having my gun holstered wasn't and isn't my biggest problem, then.

The holster is for me; it's not about kids. When I get up in the AM, the gun either gets locked up or worn.

In holster with fully loaded cylinder. No kids, but do have a cat.

Chambered and unholstered, I don't have a need for my XD to be holstered right now.

XD9 with 32rd mag under the pillow I dont use. No holster, as the gun doesnt fit in there with a flashlight attached.


Get a Galco HALO holster. It's what I use with my XD and it's sitting in that holster right now with a Streamlight TLR-1 attached right now.

I worry that no holster and a round chambered is a good way to wake up from a bad dream and have a bullet hole in the wall.

I keep my Beretta 92FS unholstered and no round in the chamber. Figure racking the slide doesn't take but half a second but requires just that tiny bit more mental consciousness that I can't do it in my sleep.

My guns have mag loaded and unchambered unless its the one I'm carrying at the time. I have a 2 yr old daughter so my guns stay in a bedside safe. Unless a swat team is busting through my windows and doors I have plenty of time to open the safe and chamber a round b4 anyone gets close. Trust me, it took a locksmith 30min to get us into our house one night when my wife locked the keys inside and only the door knob lock was engaged, not even the deadbolt. I have 2 dogs downstairs so no one gets in through there without the dogs going nutso.

No kids as well. Round in the chamber with the safety on if there is one. 8)

No holster. In beside drawer no kids, loaded with tactical light/laser


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In the nightstand:

Loaded, kept in a V-Line with spare mag, wearing a Surefire X400 and with Surefire 6P LED. (the Surefire X200B pictured as replaced a while ago).

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Under the bed, in another V-Line: Benelli M1690 loaded with an Insight M3X attached.

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I’m a big proponent of the V-line safes, push button simplex locks, no batteries. They have room for extras, and even cut down on my HD gun dusting.

Bottom line, if it’s not on my person, it’s locked up.

Chuck

4 small kids so loaded, unholstered, but in a safe on my nightstand.

Big +1 on the V-Line safe too. Real easy to get open quickly and I like the mechanical keys instead of electronic.

I found a Blackhawk holster that fits between the mattress and box spring. I can fit a full sized HK USP 40 in it. I had a TLR-2 but it was too big to fit so I use a TLR-1 instead now.

No kids in the house. If a gun is in a holster, it's probably loaded and ready to fire. If it's not in a holster, it's probably not loaded.

(I say "probably" just out of deference to the 4 Rules)

Cell phone, cordless phone, and I only have to 'fight' my way to the foot of the bed for more firepower...

Room is 32 feet to the door, and the dog sleeps in front of it...

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My nightstand gun is also my carry gun. It goes unholstered on the elevated hutch of a bedside computer desk at night, long after my daughter has gone to bed. The surface it sits on is about six feet off the ground, or about twice my daughter's height. There is no chair at that desk. It is also high enough that I would have to get up to grab it; I cannot reach it while still lying or sitting in bed. It goes back on me when I get dressed in the morning. Other guns are kept locked in a cabinet or safe.

Unholstered and chambered, on my night stand sits a sigma 9, but I also have a bersa 380 in a holster also chambered close by, plus the 870'in the corner, I don't have kids and it's just me and my dog, so over all a little of both

No kids, cats show no interest in the guns. G19 chambered, no holster in the NS drawer. Used to be Colt Government, cocked and locked, no holster. Before that, 92fs, decocked, one in the chamber, again, no holster. In all instances, afore the Glock became my EDC, the carry 637, then 642, slept next to the bigger brother, also unholstered. My wife has the 637 in her nightstand drawer currently, you guessed it, naked as the day it was born. Couple times have had to grab whatever pistol, for bumps in the night here, or alarm at work. Makes me wonder why I bother with the cruiser ready Mossberg behind the bedroom door. Salmoneye, I wish you were my neighbor. Anyone who keeps an Enfield on a hook by the bed has my respect. Can't explain it, but it's a fact.

A Beretta 92fs, safety on, is the only gun I keep chambered and unholstered. Others are holstered or clear.

I'm not sure how to answer this Poll. My Model M&P holds 6 rounds and all cylinder are loaded so would that be chambered or unchambered? :neener:

My Model M&P holds 6 rounds and all cylinder are loaded so would that be chambered or unchambered?
But you only have one cylinder and 6 chambers, so it would be chambered.

Chambered, holstersed, and in my handgun safe mounted to the bed frame. When opened it presents my holstered gun to me. Kids are grown and gone, but I still keep my HD gun here and only want it accessible to me or my wife.

Here's a 6 sec. Youtube clip: FAS1 SAFE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJUGuB35y8)

http://www.fas1safe.com/images/1242157303935102392626.jpeg

Chambered in my kydex holster. No kids. Two cats but they show no interest in any of my guns.

My nightstand gun, spare mag, flashlight, and when I remember, my cell phone all go into my SmartCarry on top of my nightstand. I've found when the wife hears a bump in the night (I'm a really heavy sleeper) it's much more convenient to shoo the neighbor's cat, close the window, or lead the sleepwalker back to bed with a smart carry around my jammies than with a gun in my hand.

Plus if I actually do need it outside my bedroom, I have the mag, and flashlight handy, too. Without requiring more hands than nature intended. I got the idea from a Clint Smith video.