Nite Ryder
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Practice teaches what they call muscle memory. Why would you want to do anything different with your carry gun at night? When it is on your night stand and you wake up from the sound of someone knocking on the door or breaking out a glass window, do you really want to think twice about what you need to do? What you do should be an almost automatic reflex, not something out of the ordinary. You don't carry an auto loader with the slide locked back during the daytime, why would you even consider it at night? It isn't any safer, but allowing the slide to slam forward makes a noise that would alert an intruder, letting him know that someone is in the house and awake. Personally, I carry a revolver, so all I have to think about is pulling the trigger. It is on the table by my bed, out of it's holster. The perimeter around my house is covered with outside motion detectors that alert me if anyone comes near my house, day or night. So, if worse comes to worse, I will be fully awake before anyone ever reaches my door or any windows. I'm a gun person, most of the rooms in my home have a gun stashed somewhere, and most of them are loaded. I couldn't do this if I had kids in my home, but I don't I have a dog, a cat, and a wife. Two of us know how to use a firearm.