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Another possibility is a quick access pistol safe.
That's what I do. Loaded, cocked lock and ready to go. There's also a streamlight flashlight in there. I have an 11 year old who sleep walks. Sleepwalkers will scare the living crap out of you. It is for that reason alone that I don't use a weapon light. I keep one on my hd gun...but I absolutely never investigate with it. A suspicious bump in the night may get a firearm in hand or holstered if there's time for pants...but I use a flashlight with my weak hand.
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A few extra seconds accessing the safe doesn't bother me. My youngest, 7 has asthma. He's "growing out of it," but he had bad problems (compounded by allergies) when he was younger. I am a light sleeper. I was formerly a heavy sleeper. After watching your own small child suffer an asthma attack and feeling completely helpless to make it stop, you will find yourself adjusting your sleep habits quickly. A wheezing through a baby monitor is a quiet sound that suddenly becomes a 200db siren in your head. After going through that with my son, I no longer sleep well. If the wind catches a window screen wrong, I'm up and coherent.
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