Anyone arm themselves at Home?

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Wow. We all have many guns at home so it seems to me that we're all packing at home anyway. I know there are many reasons, both personal and professional, that we live in the places, cities, towns that we do but I wouldn't live in a place where I thought I had to strap a gun while in my house. Having said that, if it makes you feel safer it's up to you to take the necessary steps to protect your home and your family. Hope everyone is safe out there...
 
Hello all, RON here

yup, My EDC cary gun is with me 24/7, and at my Bedside when asleep! Mostly that as 38 2" Snub or a Full Size 1911a1 or a BHP clone! I see no reason not to and that's how I roll!
 
I don't carry in the house -- but: My daily carry gun is always within a short distance on the ground floor. Nighttime is covered with a larger gun concealed in my upstairs bedroom, along with a maglight -- both within arm's reach of the bed.

I moved into a neighborhood recently that is okay, but a short walk from a neighborhood that is not. When the dog growls at 2am, I investigate -- armed.
 
I wish I could and I definitely would but unfortunately too many wee ones running around so keeping it out (where I'd want it) is not gonna happen.

Too uncomfortably to lounge around with a holster either so I guess I need to take my chances on running to my gun safe in the event of an issue.

Always has me nervous since I wholeheartedly agree that the home is where most self defense incidences happen.

Not paranoid when your info. is based in facts :D
 
Read the Armed Citizen in the NRA's "American Rifleman", nearly all of those are home invastion type crimes.

I am armed at home, motel, car, boat, neighborhood walks etc. just about 24/7
 
I don't normally carry in the house but there's a pistol reachable from my arm chair and in the computer desk as well as the Mossberg 12ga. short barrel in the bedroom by the bed. My LCP or SR9 will be in my coat pocket hanging from the hook near the back door.
 
Apartment dweller here as well. In th bedroom is most of our guns. Outside of it, we just sit the guns next to ourselves in our usual spots.
And outside of the apartment, Oregon State University has decided that anyone attending it ought to be armed only with their razor-sharp wit.
 
Guns are locked up in the safe. However there have been times when you just felt a little nudge telling you something isnt right. Thats when the safe gets open and a few of the boys get let out. By morning if i feel everything is ok the boys are unloaded and locked back up. Heck even the misses has told me on occasion the night did not feel right. So the boys come out for the night.
 
I stay armed at all times. I have a comfortable rig and it is just as much a part of my outfit as underwear and socks. If I'm dressed, I'm armed. If I'm nekkid, chances are it's close, but only if I thought about it... (yea, we live in the country and nekkid wandering sometimes happens...)

I don't understand why someone would NOT be armed. It just seems like such a small difference to simply leave it in the holster/rig and wear it, rather than pull it off and secure it.

That having been said, my wife frequently dons the sweats or fur robe or whatever and her weapon ends up in the bedside speedsafe. I don't understand her doing that either, and she doesn't have a good explanation other than " I just don't want to mess with it right now..."

sigh...
 
I'm in the always armed crowd, too. It is not always overly comfortable, but very comforting! So far, my wife and I have been blessed with four kiddos, and I arm myself because I cherish them and don't want anything to harm them.

Pacpiper, I stay armed precisely because I have little kids running around. In the event of needing a firearm at home, our plan is to defend and fight while getting everyone to the safe room or outside, wherever we need to be. I like this set-up because I don't have to choose between trying to grab the weapon or rounding everybody up unarmed.
 
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I carry everywhere that it is legal to do so. It is a right and a conscious choice.

Wow. We all have many guns at home so it seems to me that we're all packing at home anyway. I know there are many reasons, both personal and professional, that we live in the places, cities, towns that we do but I wouldn't live in a place where I thought I had to strap a gun while in my house. Having said that, if it makes you feel safer it's up to you to take the necessary steps to protect your home and your family. Hope everyone is safe out there...
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That's not the point. If home was some magical land where I was invincible and no criminal would ever dare to tread, I would just work from home and never leave. I've had a door kicked in, and in a nice community. When something happens, it will happen extremely fast and very violently. The guy abandoned the attempt once he figured out someone was home. The incident could have went very, very differently. Everything in the closet is worthless at that point unless I'm standing next to it.

It's just a mindset. It isn't a fear or it doesn't make us feel safer. It's about being prepared.

I don't blame anyone for thinking differently and going unarmed at home, it's up to them. Just bear in mind that it isn't about crime level in our community, fear, a feeling of safety or anything else. It is about exercising a right and mindset. Nothing more. :)
 
I know a bunch of fellow SF vets and we joke about weapons at home.
Many have pieces stuffed into every imagineable nook or cranny to include showers.

Most have to take a moment in deciding what and how many of each to leave the house with.
 
the way I see it, my chances of needing a firearm at home are greater than they are when I'm out because I spend so much more time at home than I do out.
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I am the same way. Also, I have a very large and from what people tell me, intimidating appearance, so when I am out and about people are very unlikely to mess with me.

All houses look the same though, so you don't have that factor when you are at home. My house looks just the same as all the others on the block to a criminal, and is just as likely to be intruded upon as any other.
 
When not at home, I have only what's on me.

When I am at home, I have what's on me, plus what's stashed in accessible places in the house.

Trouble does come to homes. Trouble often comes at night (some goblins watch the lights in a woman's home in hopes of ensuring their attack comes when the lady is in the shower). Because trouble often comes at night, there's a gun, a tactical flashlight and a knife in my bathrobe (well, OK, the knife is really because I hate to be without one for chores, and I needed it once too often while in my robe).

There really just aren't that many reasons to ever be unarmed.
 
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