carry in the home?

I usually have a handgun on my side or in my pocket, at home or away, so it's with me whenever I answer the door.
And I always look through the peep-hole before answering the door.
And I have an outer glass door that is always locked, which would slow down anyone who might try to push their way inside.

Just a word of advice to those who don't answer the door....

Most burglars will knock to see if anyone is home, and if they think no one is home they will then break in.
So by not answering the door at all, and giving the impression that the house is empty, you're actually increasing the odds that someone will try to break in.

Seriously! Carry in the home? My neighbor hasn't locked his car or house since 1963! I lock at night, most peoples' homes are open during the day, dropping by is welcome as is letting oneself in.

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For me it is not so much security, as it is the feeling of carrying and supporting my rights. I have been accused of being "reckless" or a "cowboy" but when I am home, I carry all of the time because I like too. I do not feel threatened, but I cannot carry at work. I cannot carry on my EMS/FD duties. So, the only time I can carry and not violate any rules (I said rules... not laws...) is when I am home.

I always have my Glock 26 either on me or on the table next to me. Girlfriend used to think that I was paranoid until we watched a couple of movies that had home invasion scenes. Just the other night we were watching a movie and during a home invasion scene someone knocked on our door. It was a food delivery guy that came to the wrong house, but it was classic when my girlfriend told me to take my gun with me. Not so paranoid anymore lol.

I don't carry in the house unless I've been outside and still have my CCW gun on.

I ALWAYS have a gun if I have to go to the door.

If nothing bad happens, I can tell you that nothing happened.

If I don't have a gun when I go to the door and something bad happens, you'll probably have to read about it in the "Plain Dealer".

I usually have my pistol on me. We have large windows on our door that offer good two-way visability. This isn't tactically sound and someday the door will be replaced. More for insulation purposes than security but I digress.

I voted carry all the time. I at least have a .380 in my pocket around the house. I've been thinking about switching it out for a small .22 because my most common need for a gun is pest control.

I like to carry around the house because I live in a large house, with a large amount of land (not bragging) and I might be really far away from my gun safe. So I want to have something I can pull out at a moment's notice.

I also like to take the opportunity to practice CC around the house because I am somewhat new to it and don't get much of an opportunity to CC as I am usually at work or college.

I carry at home, it is where the people I need to defend and the things that people want to take from me are.

I've never understood why a person wouldn't carry at home, the chances of getting to a firearm not on your person are not good.

I do sometimes but I have a crappy holster. The new one will be here within 3-5 weeks and after that, I will be closer to 100% carry. It has really taken me a while to sort of deal with it without considering myself paranoid.

Things happen, and while chances are I could like here 100 yrs and never need a gun on my hip, that 1 time i need it and don't have it, I could not really deal with that if my family members were hurt as a result.

I generally wear some pretty loose flannel-type pants around the house that can't support the weight. Once my shoulder rig comes in I will probably start carrying around the house too.

Be especially mindful of the muzzle with a shoulder holster. A lot of them put the muzzle angled at your COM at some point and a ND is pretty likely to be fatal (a few usually happen a year).

I've been known to just wear a belt with holster regardless if the pants has loops.

I've been known to just wear a belt with holster regardless if the pants has loops.

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lol
now i just sit here imagining you guys wearing boxers or sweat pants and a gun belt typing away on here

That's me, but no boxers or sweatpants.

I usually keep a weapon on me and have at least additional weapon out of the safe and hidden discreetly under a news paper on my office desk.

Before college I worked for Cingular just before the AT&T buyout. I have never heard of that company having door to door sales reps. Extremely rural area though.

I carry daily in and out of the home. I only carry in a holster outside my house, but inside my home, no matter what I'm doing, I have a gun nearby. When watching TV, I've got my gun on a small table in front of me, when on the computer it's right next to me, and when I sleep it's on my night stand. It may sound weird, but I also take my carry piece into the bathroom when I go in there. If someone unexpectedly knocks on my door, I have easy places I can peek to see who it is, and I have various places I can easily stash my gun quickly yet be accessible if I am confronted in a threatening manner.

Gotta take a gun to the crapper, that is place of definite vulnerability.

now i just sit here imagining you guys wearing boxers or sweat pants and a gun belt typing away on here

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Actually, I'm wearing sweatpants right now, "typing away" while Fox News Channel prattles on in the background... I've learned to put on a pair of pull-on cotton shorts over the sweatpants at times like these, and a 442 and two speedstrips in the shorts pockets don't weigh them down enough to create uncomfortable "sag". Sure it looks a tad odd, but so what... I'm also wearing Birkenstock sandals over the blue dress socks I wore to work, but I'm in the detached-garage man-cave. The wife and kids don't seem to be embarrassed, and I'm not concerned about being fashionable. I actually met a new neighbor looking for his lost dog dressed like this once, except I also had a set of my young daughter's pink and white bunny rabbit ears on my head. I forgot that I had put them on after picking them up where she had dropped them in the yard. Oops...

Les

wrs840 said:

Actually, I'm wearing sweatpants right now, "typing away" while Fox News Channel prattles on in the background... I've learned to put on a pair of pull-on cotton shorts over the sweatpants at times like these, and a 442 and two speedstrips in the shorts pockets don't weigh them down enough to create uncomfortable "sag". Sure it looks a tad odd, but so what... I'm also wearing Birkenstock sandals over the blue dress socks I wore to work, but I'm in the detached-garage man-cave. The wife and kids don't seem to be embarrassed, and I'm not concerned about being fashionable. I actually met a new neighbor looking for his lost dog dressed like this once, except I also had a set of my young daughter's pink and white bunny rabbit ears on my head. I forgot that I had put them on after picking them up where she had dropped them in the yard. Oops...

Les

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oh my, now you've got me rollin for sure!!!!
you guys are to funny!!

I don't carry in the house. I have my handgun right beside my chair. Our "front" door is a patio door well within view, and 25 feet away, so I can ID visitors and immediately determine if I go to the door armed.

I didn't read all the responses, but the choices given lack one or two common ones, and leave details out of some of those that are offered. For example, there is no choice "grab firearm before looking out window/peephole". The choices "Speak through the door", and "Don't answer" don't ask whether the respondent would be armed while exercising either.
That being said, I carry at home, and voted as such. My house doesn't lend itself well to fast travel through it to retrieve a gun, and my daughter's new mobility skills are leading to a reduction in the number of loaded guns stashed about it. Makes sense to just have it on me.

Incidentally, I just watched an episode of "The First 48", and one of the victims in a case followed was an apparent "random", and was accosted as he exited his shower. The perpetrator had been knocking on doors asking for directions to a particular unit number in the apartment complex. This was likely just a ruse to find a unit at which he got no answer. Most likely surprised by the resident, he killed the 83-year-old, then fled in the victim's car, leaving a previously-stolen one behind (he was captured in it the next day.)
Just goes to show the the bathroom is no more a place of sanctuary than is the rest of the house.

No reason not to have a J-Frame in your pocket at all times. It's just too easy.

+1 JoeShmoe, I even have the j-frame in my sleep. Everywhere but when I'm in the "safety" of a "gun free" school zone while in class.

No reason not to have a J-Frame in your pocket at all times. It's just too easy.

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This is really the right answer, IMO. There's not really a better solution. "I like to wear flannel lounging pants at home" is a poor excuse. You can carry an Airweight J frame in a pocket-holster and still dress very comfortably.

Les

For those of you that don't lock your doors --I might seriously reconsider that if I were you. I live in a Gated Community that has Security Guards at night and in a fairly low crime area. One morning I woke up at 5 AM (Guards were on duty still) with my security system going off thanks to some nice person that tried to kick my basement door in. The security system was enough to scare them off but I seriously doubt they were there to thank me for my contributions to the community. I sleep with a gun and carry everywhere but the shower while at home and have one within a couple steps of the shower. Yeah I may be paranoid but I've also had death threats in my former line of work including having a note on my car from a guy that "was gonna blow me up!" There are dangerous idiots everywhere so keep yourself safe.

Carry while at home

On me or within diving distance.

We've lived in a small community since January 1978. There has been exactly one murder, by one stanger to another at a near-by bar in that time.

However, there have been at least six attempts to abduct children in that time, two in a park that is across the street from our house.

While living here I've been in the military, flew airplanes for a living, worked in law enforcement, close protection security and federal regulation and oversight ("I'm just a poor corrupt government official, Ricky.")

Several people have gone to the pokey after investigations I did, and one, the worst of them, offed himself rather than serve. His relatives, in a near-by community, threatened me and one other in our office.

Years ago a girl was raped in a home next to ours. Took the cops 20 minutes to arrive after being called.

I'm not paranoid, I just know that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away, and we have an excellent police force.
-Backpacker