Do you carry while at home

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Use to pocket carry a S&W Model 38 while out at night walking the dog. Also kept a Model 10 on the nightstand with a MAG-LITE 3 D cell flashlight nearby. But that was a number of years ago and at the time in a rather dodgy neighborhood. When I lived in a more urban setting (but still dodgy), I kept a Beretta Model 84 on me most of the time I was home and kept it out on the nightstand with a couple of magazines (the reading kind), covering it from view. Had a clear shot at the front door and on occasion reached for it when someone tried to force the door at night.

Nowadays we live in a relatively secure condo development and it's fairly well secluded from the rest of the township. No troubles or break-ins that I know of and it's nice and peaceful here, with everybody looking out after their neighbors. I still keep a SIG P229 9mm. handy in a small lock box I have hidden securely in the closet.

Yes- Not out of recent demonstrated need for two-legged threats, but out of principle.

Emergency response times could be extended.

My answer is 99% of the time, NO. But in recent times, its a consideration. I have access to at least one defensive firearm on each floor, but I know to never count on being able to get to them. Im still going to stand by this: This would be an absolute terrible house to break into.
About 3 years ago, there was a break in reported in my community of 5,000 residents. It was a minor who thought he was locked out of a friends house at night, and forced a sliding door open of the wrong house. Oops!! There are also mentally disabled individuals that enter into wrong homes accidentally all the time. I treat a threat the same in my home as i would on the street, but enter my home without permission or by accident, expect to be taken at g.p. at a minimum.

yes...ish.....

Where we live is still pretty local, I don't have any real fear of someone actually breaking into the house when were home. I do grab one of my guns and slap the paddle holster on if the dogs go on alert tho.

Live in a small town with very little crime and that which does happen, happens in a certain neighborhood. Only folks who come to my door are Fedex and UPS and my 75# dog hates strangers, so no carrying at home.

I do. I felt a little paranoid doing so until someone tried breaking into a house across the street from me in the middle of the day. If I'm awake I'm carrying regardless of where I am, unless it's a prohibited area.

Drifter27 said:

How many of you have a firearm on your person watching TV, walking the dog, taking out the trash or answering the door etc?

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Watching TV, walking the dog, taking out the trash, and answering the door are four different activities. Walking the dog and taking out the trash both require that I go outside, where yes, I almost always have a gun on my person if only because we live in the country and there are plenty of coyotes around that might take a notion to attack our beloved Cocker/Springer cross, Ruger.
While watching TV though, no. However, while watching TV, I have a Glock 19 within arms reach, and I tuck it in my back pocket if I don't recognize who is at the door - especially at night. And even at that, conversation with strangers (which seldom happens out here) takes place through the door - I don't open it until I'm comfortable.
It use to be that nobody could come down our driveway without Ruger screaming at the top of his lungs. He 13 and almost deaf now though. So the only time he alarms is when someone rings the doorbell. Ruger can still hear the doorbell and high-pitched whistles, but we don't count on someone intending to do us harm ringing the door bell or whistling before breaking into our house.
Sitting here at the computer in the back bedroom, there's a 41 Mag revolver within arms reach, and a 20 gauge pump standing in the corner. Our children (both girls) are grown and gone, and even our grandchildren (all boys) are grown and have their own guns now.

In the house, carrying or within reach nearly always. Outdoors, always carrying.

Yup, always. If my pants are on my gun and spare mag are on.

Live in the country so not a huge concern with two legged creatures (although its never out of the realm of possibility no matter where you live), but there are plenty of other four legged issues that could be a problem out here.

I put my gun on with my belt in the morning and take it off when I get undressed at night.

Yes, of course. You mean there are people that don't?

There was a great thread with an account of a brutal home invasion in the S&T forum recently in which we took a deep dive into this arena.

Anyway, to be fair to the OP, there were only two search matches for the same exactly-worded question in his title...two previous threads asking the exact question since 2005.

But, this topic comes up as one of the main subjects or is touched on in every single thread about home defense, like... since ever.

I always carry at home but it is not the same gun I carry when I leave the house. In my house I have strategically place firearms I have access to in every room. When at home I carry a very light weight 911 Springfield in .380. There are two entrances to my home and I sit right in the middle throughout the day if I am lounging around, the small gun is comfortable.

Anyway the doors in my home are not to protect me from an intruder, but to protect the intruder from me. A home invasion takes but a second for someone to kick or break the door open and the startled resident may take even longer to respond because the brain has not processed what has occurred or is occurring and is totally defenseless . With a handgun in my possession I will be able to respond immediately, giving me a fighting chance to get to my other larger caliber firearms or shotguns. The 9mm short is a great caliber in this scenario.

If I leave the apartment, usually.
If I'm in the apartment, no. I'm never more than the next room away from a firearm, usually in my bedroom. One point of entry is this bedroom window and the other is the front door, which forms a 90-degree corner against said window.
So no one can get in without me quickly becoming aware. And them probably stumbling on the shelf and various hobby stuff next to that window.

hso said:

Don't live in a neighborhood. No one comes to the door. People with directions can barely find the house. Dog perks up before anyone even gets on the driveway.

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Same here. There is always a gun close by. But the dog is a lot more alert than I am.

In the minority but I don't carry at home. I am never very far away from a firearm and have layers of security to give me precious seconds to get to one should the need arise. Maybe I fool myself about my personal safety but at least I don't need a belt everyday if I am not leaving the house.

If I did decide to carry at home it would be something very small. NAA mini, LCP. Something of that size. A gun to get to a bigger gun.

I never at any point during the day have a gun out of reach. Although I dont bring one into the bathroom with me typically. Not like I carry on my person 100% of the time in the house but like I said, within reach. I've read enough to know that you dont usually get alot of advanced warning. I also dont walk around scared of an attack or think one is likely. I just have my habits. Same with a pocket knife. I dont go anywhere without one of those either.

If we lived in Ramadi, Fallujah or Kabul, the answer would be yes.

In the heart of downtown Portland or Seattle, or by nasty San Fran's Tenderhook District, also yes. But living elsewhere, only while on errands Outside the house.

Living outside those types of urban areas, if you own a jewelry store (happened to an owner in a very upscale residential area by Memphis), or appear weak and/or physically disabled, then you could stand a fair chance of a home invasion.

Old Dog said:

Yes, of course. You mean there are people that don't?

There was a great thread with an account of a brutal home invasion in the S&T forum recently in which we took a deep dive into this arena.

Anyway, to be fair to the OP, there were only two search matches for the same exactly-worded question in his title...two previous threads asking the exact question since 2005.

But, this topic comes up as one of the main subjects or is touched on in every single thread about home defense, like... since ever.

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Dogs, cameras, guns, other defense measures, no need to carry at home. Here is the thread @Old Dog mentioned.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/the-larry-goldstein-incident.875773/

Of course I carry at home, never know when the wife and kids may turn on you.

Even when I'm completely unarmed , there's a good chance I've got a 380 . sometimes it goes swimming with me and I've taken it to a pajama party or two.

I do not carry at home, but there is a gun nearby all the time when I am home. I also have my dog.