DA/SA Semi auto shotgun
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MCgunner
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Surely you jest. 
I keep my SxS 20 loaded safety on. I hunt with it that way, why should I not trust it in the house that way. It can't fall toward the room where I have it, either. I've been wing shooting for some 50 years now with mostly Mossbergs and an 870 Remington with a few SxSs and a Winchester auto tossed in. Never ever had a ND. Never seen one fire itself.
If you're paranoid of a loaded shotgun, keep a pump at the ready with nothing in the chamber. All you have to do is rack the slide and it's ready. That's what everyone else does. That's how I'd do it if I used my pump for HD. My pump is a dedicated waterfowler, though.
I keep my SxS 20 loaded safety on. I hunt with it that way, why should I not trust it in the house that way. It can't fall toward the room where I have it, either. I've been wing shooting for some 50 years now with mostly Mossbergs and an 870 Remington with a few SxSs and a Winchester auto tossed in. Never ever had a ND. Never seen one fire itself. If you're paranoid of a loaded shotgun, keep a pump at the ready with nothing in the chamber. All you have to do is rack the slide and it's ready. That's what everyone else does. That's how I'd do it if I used my pump for HD. My pump is a dedicated waterfowler, though.
rcmodel
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Same for a semi-auto.
There is no good reason to keep any shotgun chamber loaded in the house.
You can rack the op handle on an auto, or pump the pump on a pump while you are in the process of picking it up and getting it into shooting position.
If the split second it takes to chamber a shell from a loaded magazine is a deal breaker, you should probably build a fortified house, lock yourself in the basement, and never come out again.
rc
There is no good reason to keep any shotgun chamber loaded in the house.
You can rack the op handle on an auto, or pump the pump on a pump while you are in the process of picking it up and getting it into shooting position.
If the split second it takes to chamber a shell from a loaded magazine is a deal breaker, you should probably build a fortified house, lock yourself in the basement, and never come out again.
rc
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Mossberg made a double action trigger pump shotgun but apparently it was a flop.
The target buyer was police departments and they were underwhelmed.
The target buyer was police departments and they were underwhelmed.
arizona98tj
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Sorry, but some of that doesn't make much sense.
Don't keep a shotgun in the house with a loaded chamber. And there is a possibility that there is something wrong with me or my house if I do keep the shotgun with a round in the chamber?
It's OK for my handgun to have a round in the chamber. In fact, from the comments I usually see, if I don't do that, I should probably leave the gun at home and turn in my CCW permit.
So why the big deal about having a shotgun in condition one?
Don't keep a shotgun in the house with a loaded chamber. And there is a possibility that there is something wrong with me or my house if I do keep the shotgun with a round in the chamber?
It's OK for my handgun to have a round in the chamber. In fact, from the comments I usually see, if I don't do that, I should probably leave the gun at home and turn in my CCW permit.
So why the big deal about having a shotgun in condition one?
sarduy
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this is how "I" do things in my house. i keep my HD shotgun magazine loaded with an empty chamber But i always have two pistols in the house ready to go. i dont have kids and my wife knows where i keep them.
oneounceload
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Keeping a pistol you carry locked and cocked is one thing - you're carrying it, and presumably, there are safeties that work on it. Shotguns are NOT drop proof, are typically NOT carried CCW style and you generally tend to have that extra split second to chamber the round safely. Shotgun safeties tend to not be that reliable
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