What do you keep on the nightstand?

A Glock 20 with a Streamlight flash light mounted to it. With narrow hallways outside my bedroom a handgun is a better option for me than a shotgun or rifle, although those are readily available. I use Underwood 180 Grain Bonded (Gold Dot) ammo. I'm confident with 15 rounds of 10mm ammo and keep an extra magazine next to it. We live in a Chicago suburb with a low crime rate, but we're not far from areas you want to stay out of and we've had a few break ins on our block so the gun is within arms reach at night.

A 1911 in the closet on the top shelf. A curios two year old makes a gun in the nightstand a an unsafe choice for me.

SIG P232 under my pillow with two extra mags.

To get me on the way to the Glock 23 in the book case on the way to the front door.

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Hanging from the wall rack next to the bed are my .357 in its holster with 2 speedloaders.
There is also a 12 gauge double barrel (w/ double triggers) with a 3" 00 Buck on one side and a 3" #4 Buck in the other. Both barrels can be fired at the same time and this would put out a cloud of 55 pellets (15 & 40) at the same time.
If that isn't enough "persuasion", there is an AK with a 40-round banana with mixed PSPs, FMJs, and JHPs in the magazine.

I keep my little Taurus PT-111 G2 on the dresser, within arms reach. Safety on, chamber loaded. Two loaded magazines, 124 grain Gold Dot's.

On my side is a CZ75 SP01 9mm with two mags, on the wife's side a Glock 31 357sig. If more is needed, in hidden compartment behind wall mirror is AR for the wife and FN SLP for me. To aid in distraction are 3 Dobermans, 2 fully protection trained and the 95 pound 16 month old puppy is about 1/4 into his training. All sleeping at various points around the bed. Think I am about as good as I can be, lol.

This, and my Kimber TLE II

My PM (Pistolet Makarova) is my bedside gun. I keep it loaded with 8+1 decocked, with safety off so it is ready to fire with a double action pull. I use standard milspec Russian ball ammunition. With a spare magazine and my trusty work light, I feel it is very adequate.

A Glock 36 .45ACP 6+1 on the nightstand with a round in the chamber. Remington Golden Saber 230 JHP's. I know this gun after 11 long years and its never let me down.

2 spare mags within arms reach.

Colt Detective Special - I used to worry about the barrel only being 2" but then realized we are talking across a room or down the hallway...

A really nice latex pillow, and a woman that I love dearly. Oh yeah, the gun. A Glock 19 in one of those bedside holsters that attaches between the frame and mattress. I keep it loaded and chambered, and "+1d." Usually with 147 grain gold dots or 147 grain HSTs. A loaded AR is across the room as well.

I read the title and immediately had visions of exercises at Camp Pendleton, my M-16A2, and the cold, hard, ground... But that was a while back.

These days it's a much more comfortable mattress, a Browning Hi Power in the nightstand, magazine loaded, empty chamber, a loaded Glock 20 in the dresser (my EDC), and a sporterized No1 Mk III under the bed, with 20 rounds in the case with it.

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I sleep with a Kimber Ultra CDP II (w/ Tritium night sights), 7 + 1 230 gr Federal HST, cocked and locked. I keep an additional magazine. Also, a 900-something-lumens LED LUX-PRO Max 3C LXII.

And these days, rather than an 18"-barreled 12 ga in backup I've been having my 16"-barreled .357 Magnum chambered Rossi 1892 serve in that role. It is shorter, lighter and a far more appropriate bullet weight (125 gr brass jacketed hollerpoints) and caliber for HD ranges than any po0dle-shooter .223 might be. It is indeed the "thinking man's carbine".

Kel-Tec PF9, because it comes off my belt and goes next to the bed. It rests on the top of the high hutch of my desk next to the bed, necessitating that I actually get up to reach it.

However, there is also a Tapco-Intrafuse/Ruger 10/22 next to the bed. Its Ruger magazine holds 25 CCI Mini-Mags.

A Coleman Tac-light and my phone round out the bedside clutter.

What Do You Sleep With?

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My cats, an ever deepening sense of loneliness and self pity....and an AR15.

Glock 19 with a Streamlight TLR-4 in a FAS1 safe.

There are loaded handguns and a carbine in the bedroom.

Primary line of defense, Cooper;

He may be a smallish Portuguese Water Dog (Shelter rescue) but his bark sounds like it comes from a dog three times his size, he's also on a hair trigger alert and very defensive of his Daddy (me)

Secondary line of defense;

CZ-75B with extra 16 round mag, handgun under pillow, spare mag on nightstand

Living in a rural area with nearly nonexistent crime helps too

A model 15; actually, a pre model 15 that a previous owner, for some unknown reason, chopped a half inch off the barrel.

SIG P239 on the night table, right next to the alarm clock. Two extra magazines and a SureFire G2 LED next to it. Nothing fancy.

On the bed stand a cocked and locked Colt Government in .45 ACP with an extra loaded 8 round mag lying beside it.

The same Ruger LC9s that I took off my belt when I went to bed.



I'll put it back on when I get dressed in a bit.

S&W 686 loaded with .38 special 158 grain FBI loads.

First line of defense: our dog Teddy. Sleeps outside our bedroom door and doesn't take kindly to strangers, especially those who set off our alarm system in the middle of the night.

Next up is my SIG P229R with a SIG STL-900L light/laser module mounted on it. I really like the strobe light setting on it.

Last and certainly not least is my Maverick Model 88 12 gauge shotgun.