I live behind the sticks you live in. During the week all stays locked up. Lunch box revolver does night stand duty. Weekend , whatever I'm testing loads in sits by the front door. Mini thirty at the back door. SxS in bedroom. Same old same old every Friday. I don't keep the tornado shelter with me. So, I'm okIf I'm in bed there is one within reach if I'm out of bed there will be one on me. I live in the sticks and don't carry a cell phone and if I did it would take a deputy at least 20 minutes to get here after I called. So best to be prepared.
No one "needs" to, until the need materializes. It's a matter of risk management--one of balancing likelihood, potential consequences, and what is involved in mitigation.No, if I needed to, I'd move
We live in the country on 18 acres. We have two horses, two ponies, 4 greyhounds and a whippet.
Good point. The loaded guns stay loaded.and my desire to minimize gun handling.
Yeah, he's a little pervert....He must be pretty small.
You'd have to be really dumb to get that close to somebody weldingI also have a part time welding/fabricating business. Was in the garage with the door halfway down and when I flipped my hood up a lady had ducked under the door and was standing on the other side of the welding table from me.
This makes absolutely no sense to me.If the doorbell rings or knock etc, the guy who looks like he’s trying to straighten a sore back actually has his gun hand full of 9mm while he opens the door off to the side
Yes, normally I do, unless I'm planning to park in the recliner for a while, then it might be on the arm beside me.
No, I don't wear one in the shower, but there is one in reach should someone decide to invade while I'm in there.
I carry a gun in my house because sometimes, bad people do bad things, even if I don't answer the door. I have a ring camera and security cameras. I talk through my ring camera when people knock. But being a cop long enough, I've seen enough home invasions scenes and know that locked doors only keep honest people honest. Criminals don't care and if they want in, they're coming in.This makes absolutely no sense to me.
You can literally put a video camera at your front door and talk to who's ever knocking on the door without ever getting out of your lazy boy. Why would you go to the door with a gun in your hand?
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So you're going to open the door and make it easy for them?I carry a gun in my house because sometimes, bad people do bad things, even if I don't answer the door. I have a ring camera and security cameras. I talk through my ring camera when people knock. But being a cop long enough, I've seen enough home invasions scenes and know that locked doors only keep honest people honest. Criminals don't care and if they want in, they're coming in.
What part of "I have a ring camera and security cameras. I talk through my ring camera when people knock" did you not understand? That means I don't open the door for 'em.So you're going to open the door and make it easy for them?
My youngest daughter went to college in St. Louis, MO. Her car was broken into a couple times. Nothing of significance stolen but the local police said it was because she was from TN and they were probably looking for firearms.Good point. The loaded guns stay loaded.
Yeah, he's a little pervert....
My 20 year old TJ Jeep had a really stout lockbox under the driver's seat, bolted to the seat. Really wish the newer cars offered that kind of security. Hate to leave a gun in the car these days. Do have a relatively stout lockbox that can be aircraft cabled in the trunk; use that especially when passing through gun-unfriendly states.
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I'm a former cop who is a registered lobbyist for a gun rights organizations. Plenty of people don't like me.I voted the "haha... oh, seriously: no." Things like home invasions simply do not happen randomly despite the fearmongers. They are, 99%, drug house thefts, and similar. A handful are wrong-address but I don't live in such a neighborhood.
That said, threats vary. In the past, I have been day-and-night armed covertly, calmly, because we fostered; emergency placements, so had a zillion kids through, often straight from their home or school or the hospital (sheriffs cars often showed up, not DCF or private agency people to drop them off) and >1 time the dad is Bad News, like multiple violent felony warrants etc, so we've been asked by the cops if we have a gun in the house, yes is a thank-goodness answer, and "maybe keep it around."
Also if there's a party at the house. Not for people we invite (kids stuff mostly) but you never know what that could invite or similar: other relatives of kids who are unpleasant. So it trips me into "unknown territory" and I carry in my house and yard. (Also, people around: could block access to locked up guns or even try I guess to break into the cage) But again, situational not routine.
But that's rare, and yes technically there are firearms locked up on two of the three floors so it's pretty easy to access one if I get any advance notice of a problem.