FourNineFoxtrot
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I've slept with a gun under my pillow, in motel rooms mainly. I stopped doing it when I realized that it isn't actually very accessible to get to something you're laying on. And when I did do this, my Sig Sauer was in Condition 3 (loaded mag in, empty chamber, hammer down).
Mostly I keep it on my bookshelf (within easy reach of my bed) at home. In a motel, depending on how the room is laid out, I'll leave it on the nightstand or on the other side of the bed covered by a shirt or something. I'd cover it with a pillow, but I usually use both pillows on the full-size beds at those places.
Once I was traveling with my my uncle and grandmother. This was a few years ago. We booked two motel rooms, one for my grandma and a two-bed room for my uncle and I to share. That night I kept the gun under my pillow because there wasn't any other good place to put it and still have it handy. I wasn't concealing it from him, but I wasn't discussing it with him either. Same deal, though, Condition 3.
I'm not as paranoid in motel rooms as I used to be. They're actually probably more secure than my apartment: One way in, one way out, solid bar lock, window in plain view from the bed, and I'm not gonna be sleeping real deeply anyway. Condition 3 on the nightstand does well enough for me.
I used to worry about whether I'd have the motor control to rack the slide if I had to react quickly. Well, a couple of instances where I've been awakened in the middle of the night by a noise (turned out to be nothing) have taught me that it's generally done before I realize I've done it. Good enough.
Mostly I keep it on my bookshelf (within easy reach of my bed) at home. In a motel, depending on how the room is laid out, I'll leave it on the nightstand or on the other side of the bed covered by a shirt or something. I'd cover it with a pillow, but I usually use both pillows on the full-size beds at those places.
Once I was traveling with my my uncle and grandmother. This was a few years ago. We booked two motel rooms, one for my grandma and a two-bed room for my uncle and I to share. That night I kept the gun under my pillow because there wasn't any other good place to put it and still have it handy. I wasn't concealing it from him, but I wasn't discussing it with him either. Same deal, though, Condition 3.
I'm not as paranoid in motel rooms as I used to be. They're actually probably more secure than my apartment: One way in, one way out, solid bar lock, window in plain view from the bed, and I'm not gonna be sleeping real deeply anyway. Condition 3 on the nightstand does well enough for me.
I used to worry about whether I'd have the motor control to rack the slide if I had to react quickly. Well, a couple of instances where I've been awakened in the middle of the night by a noise (turned out to be nothing) have taught me that it's generally done before I realize I've done it. Good enough.