Anyone arm themselves at Home?

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Yes, absolutely. My XDsc is within arms reach 99% of the time I am at home.
 
XDm 9 with veridian green sits on my end table 1 1/2 feet from my chair. Mossberg 590 A in the bedroom Walther PPS .40 in my pocket, Ruger Vaquero .45 in cowboy holster on the wall with a .45 Henry Bigboy and a Remington Spartan Coach Gun. The last 3 are part of a western decorating motif, but can be loaded quickly if my other 3 Guns aren't handy. Wife has a 642 Lady Smith in the drawer in an end table next to her chair . Paranoid? Some would say yes, I call it careful.. My neighborhood has changed dramaticly in the 17 years I've lived here, but I will not be run out of my own neighborhood.:fire:
 
Always. It's a scientific fact that 100% of home invasions and home burglaries occur in the victim's homes.
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That is an AMAZING stat. And for me, either my FNP-9 on my hip or a Mossberg 500 leaning on something close by. I catch some **** for it occasionally from family/friends, but if SHTF they'd thank me ;)
 
I usually keep my handgun IWB or up on the top of the book shelf when I'm at home. Just depends on what I'm doing (rolling around with the dogs or gf's kid, just watching tv, or doing something else).

I also have my shotgun and XCR in the basement.
 
i still carry often in the house,, but with toddlers now my plan has changed to the use of inwall safes in a few closets for the loaded guns, but at night when i lock the doors and the lights are off i run my practice drills every so often,,, idpa prepares u
 
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Why doesn't everyone ccw while they are at home? A 1 lb pocket 9mm or .38 snub is no more of a burden than a cell phone, Iphone, Blackberry, and they surely manage to lug around those items.
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Because there is the social stigma of being viewed as "paranoid". That is until one becomes the 1 in 1,000 to 5,000.
 
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i still carry often in the house,, but with toddlers now my plan has changed to the use of inwall safes in a few closets for the loaded guns<SNIP>
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All the more reason to carry on your person instead of strategically placing your firearms throughout the house - even in safes. Those little creatures, I mean toddlers, are notorious for getting into places and things where they don't belong.
 
Yep. In fact, I'm trying out my new Smartcarry right now as I type this for the first time. Tyring it out with a 2.5" S&W 66. I think I'm gonna like this Smartcarry rig. I don't have to wear regular pants in order to pocket carry or use my IWB rigs. I can just put on my flanel PJs and relax, all the while having immediate access to a .38 or .357. Nice!
 
Jad HA!

My wife runs around in flannels all the time and I harp and whine because I'm the only one carrying and I don't want to have to shoulder all the responsibility and I wont have a backup and.... OMG there's a whole long whiney complaint session that goes along with it, and about half the time she has something hanging in the Smart Carry... she likes to leave me guessing....
 
I never walk around the house without my arms...it makes it very difficult to use my pistol without my arms.
 
We live in a county where reliable law enforecement is in the same mythos as manticores, and sasquatch. Average response times are greater than 25 minutes, so if I'm at home I've got my .357 on my hip.
 
I'm like the OP, only on me when I'm outside or something does not seem right. In the house theres always something within easy reach, even in the bathroom.
 
I live very near a gas station that gets robbed about once a year, if not more. If I go outside after dark, my mossberg goes along for the ride. I ALWAYS carry knives (more than one), and if its not dark, I at least carry a 22 for the hordes of demon possessed squirrels and possums in my yard:cool:. when I'm inside, my mossberg, and sometimes my sks, sit next to wherever I'm sitting, and on the rare occasion something does seem "off", I holster my dad's Smith and Wesson 686 357 mag.
 
Always unless i'm in the shower, then it's on the sink. I have to invent a waterproof suction holster for bathing. People don't realize that home invasions happen at the most inconvienent times. Having lived through one with mostlly luck. They don't ask you if you are prepared and count on you not being prepared. Once you shoot one, it's probablly going to end. People jump out windows and go through walls when guns start going off in a home or apartment. It's deafaning and there usually are no shootouts, escape is the option that an untrained perp knows best. He will abanon his buddies and run for his life. And as long as you have a pistol within arms length and are able to use it, cowards will hightail it out of there. Look at it this way, they wouldn't be trying to rob you if they knew you had a gun. Usually that's the last thing they expext. Being trained, you are a lot less likelly to panic than they are.You have a few seconds to decide what you are going to do. If someone has a shotgun to your kids head, the you give up, otherwise you chances go up exponentially if you have trained for this. You will never know that sometimes someone who is an employee for years or a girl you dated, has a husband or a boyfriend who is a bad guy. Mine was a girl, who turned out to be a federal snitch who ratted out her own hudband and received a pass. she worked with a crew of 4 who she would "turn on to guys she dated, who had money. Then if they got caught, the cops were told that they needed their testimoney and that they must drop whatever evidence thay had off with them. You would never know this, I found out because my best friends were detectives. That's why I always say be careful who you tell what to. Even though she got everything wrong. I was armed upon leaving the house, but was struch upon turning the knob to open the front door. At that point my girlfriend who was leaving with me, was now taken by the bad guys on their way in where I was struck in the head with a pistol, still armed, they didn't know I had a DS on my hip.But here is what happens, they have your girl or wife in another room, and you have 2 guys standing over you with a shotgun pointed at you, what do you do. I'm still here they aren't, so you figure it out. It's too involved and made the papers. But if you go around with the idea that stuff like this will never happen to you, then wake up", this girl had done this same thing 14 times before. I made a lifelong friend through this who experienced the same thing, but they lit his house on fire on the way out because she told them that there was a safe, There was no safe, they kidnaped his kids, and it ended up that this person once worked for him, as a partner in one of many business that he owned. He also never carried a gun, until after this happened. Stick a 380 in your pocket, if you can get the oppertunity to dispose a scumbag to the next world then do it, it's better than leaving your life and the lives of your loved ones in someone elses hands, I won't ever allow someone to decide if I or my family live or die, again. i want some input in that regaurd.
 
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We have guns, loaded, in our bedroom. I carry more frequently all the time, and after reading what was just posted might just increase that frequency and increase the stash locations thru the house.
 
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