Do you wear your holster at home?

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do you people live in down town Baghdag??
At least there is no paranoid people living in America, guess I'll add a couple more dogs in the house and put more claymores around the outside perimeter and if anyone gets thru, my 5'1" wife will stomp the ---- out of them.
 
I carry at home as well, and like another poster stated, I know when Im wearing my gun that its not accessible to others and no accidents will happen.
 
do you people live in down town Baghdag??
At least there is no paranoid people living in America, guess I'll add a couple more dogs in the house and put more claymores around the outside perimeter and if anyone gets thru, my 5'1" wife will stomp the ---- out of them.
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I live in a pretty good neighborhood. The problem is you can't pick when you get attacked. Whenever I turn on the news I hear about more and more home invasions. Guess where they happen. Good neighborhoods, because those people have money. The chances of it actually happening are slim. But how would you feel seeing your wife/girlfriend/daughter raped while you are held at gunpoint after some lowlives took your hard earned posessions? Some people take a proactive approach, I wouldn't call it paranoid.
 
Scrubs are not a problem

mgdavis: A buddy of mine wears scrubs everyday and carries a KT PTA3 in the inside back pocket all the time. The policy makers will never know:scrutiny:
As far as home carry... I go by the 15 second rule. As long as a loaded gun is less than 15 seconds away, I'm safe. I also carry a six inch lockblade everywhere I go, Even if I need a drink of water in the middle of the night.
 
Sometimes.

There are certain "chokepoints" in most homes, due to design. Hallways, stairs, etc. Determine where your family usually is and where the entrances to your home are. If stashing is your preference, stash them at these chokepoints, between the entrance and your family. That's my A plan. My B plan is pretty simple. If I'm wearing a gun, I don't take it off and back on throughout the day. Chances are I'm packing, but not always. That's what the shotguns and AR are for.
 
I work in an EMS station where weapons are not allowed and have to drive through US Park Service property to get here, so technically I am not allowed to even have a weapon in my vehicle, although I do have a CCW. There has not been a violent crime in my town since...well, forever, so I feel pretty safe when I am at home. I do keep handguns in my desk at home and in my nightstand, and keep a handgun in my vehicle on days that I am not working. Usually I only carry while traveling.
 
Im on the other side of the track on this one boys. I think this crosses the line of paranoia. I would like to file this thread slightly under the "Gun in the shower" thread. :rolleyes:
 
Even though I live in a decent middle-class neighborhood, you never know. I'd rather be prepared and not need it than vice versa.
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Sounds like my neighborhood. Now, after a couple of burglaries and home invasions within a few blocks ... :fire:

So, usually a compact .45/Kydex on the hip. When the lady gets home, this usually switches to a P-3AT in the pocket. She claims it interferes with hugs. :D All things considered, I can live with that, since she has no problems with the hardware, in general. :) :) Or the nightstand drawer. Or the dresser.

The more homes that are the "wrong homes" makes for fewer "wrong visitors." One way or the other. :cool:
 
I've got family in Springfield, Ohio.

Springfield is a nice town. Central Ohio, far enough from Columbus to filter out most of the riff-raff. They called me about a week ago to let me know there had been a home invasion/attempted robbery ON THEIR STREET.

The wife/girlfriend (my uncle's not sure of their marital status, as if that matters to the story) had just gone to bed when a knock came on the door. Hubby/BF answers it, gets bowled over as two armed men rush in. He fights them in the entryway, trying to stay between them and his significant other. She hears the fighting and yelling, comes out of the bedroom with a handgun. One BG makes it onto the front porch where he bleeds out, the other BG is wounded and apprehended. A third, the getaway driver, is seen only as a shape in the car as it leaves. Hubby/BF sustains a razor burn where his lady's bullet passed very, very close on it's way to BG #1.

So tell me again how paranoid it is to go armed in your own house.
Crap like this always happens to the other guy. To the schmuck on the other side of town, you ARE the other guy.
 
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heck no, even though it is confortable. i dont feel the need to. i have easy access to handguns anywhere in my house, at least i think.

i see all these people at gun shops wearing it with 2 magazines open carry like it is the most dangerous place. HAHA
 
1911 guy... lock your door, secure all windows. That should give you enough time to reach your weapons? Is it ok to carry in your house, sure! IMO I think sitting around with a gun on your hip means you need to switch to decaf and secure your perimeter! Your house should be a safe place BEFORE a gun is in the situation and give you time to reach the 18 weapons you have stashed throughout your home. There is a fine line between being prepared and living in fear or over preperation.

No disrespect. ;)
 
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"Home" for me is mostly my studio, where I do most of my work. (I'm so busy I rarely get to my "real" home, elsewhere in the burbs, far from here. I often sleep at the studio. Like the old saying goes, "home" is where you hang your hat.)

Said studio is in a commercial-industrial part of town that is totally deserted after 5 PM weekdays, and all weekend. The only people in the hood besides me are ... um, rather unstable people :scrutiny: living on the street or a nearby sandlot. It's not uncommon to see them (from my window) wandering the 'hood, rumaging dumpsters, testing doors (to see if they are unlocked).

So, yes, when I'm in the studio, I'm wearing either my 642 (most commonly) or my 9 (less often) in a holster. 870 is never more than 30 steps away in a safe room. (No, not a room with a [gun] safe, but a safe room to which I could retreat if needed.)

I hardly even notice I'm wearing the 642 (airweight).

Neither do my clients.
 
I wear a holster with

a firearm in in all the time I am on my property. I do this for a couple of reasons.

As others have pointed out, there really are no "safe" neighborhoods. Violent crime visits all socio-economic levels, maybe some more than others, but it eventually gets around to them all. Stashing guns around the house is not a bad idea, (I have one or two NY reloads in strategic places) but having ready access to a "right now this instant" firearm seems like ot such a bad idea also.

The other reason is for practice. I currently live in a 'may issue' state for CCW. Our police chief, the entity with the mother may I power, seems to define 'may' as 'no ordinary, non-police citizens in my lifetime'. I do have a CCW good in other states I visit at times. By wearing a firearm in a holster in my home I have been able to work the kinks out of my carry system to the point that when I visit those other states where I am treated like a citizen instead of a subject I can exercise my right to bear arms confident that my carry system is doable for long periods of time and that I don't draw attention to my armed status by all those mannerisms common to folks not used to wearing a holster.

Just as a side note: as I was typing the above answer the nightly news was talking about a recent attempted home invasion. The BG was caught but the victims are nervous because they found out the BG spent less than 24 hours in jail before being released. The BG was arrested just a few hours after posting bail for the home invasion attempt because he assaulted someone during a traffic incident. The neighborhood for both of these incidents...regular, middle income people who work hard everyday to make a life and raise their kids type of suburban area...pretty much what I see when I'm looking around my neighborhood.

Yep, call me paranoid if you want...I can live with that.

migoi
 
I'll modify one of migoi's reasonable, insightful comments slightly to meet my own needs.
By wearing a firearm in a holster in my home I have been able to work the kinks out of my carry system to the point that when...
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...at some time in the future, for whatever reason, I may need to wear a holstered handgun, I will feel as comfortable with it as my EDC pocket knife.
 
I can't carry it around the house. Because.....they don't make a holster yet to acommadate one going around the house just wearing one's underwear.
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Wouldn't a shoulder holster do that?

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I can't carry it around the house. Because.....they don't make a holster yet to acommadate one going around the house just wearing one's underwear.
I guess I could just wear my pants belt (without the pants) with holster.
The wife might get a kick out of it.
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Troutman
Highroad members have discussed carrying while wearing less than underwear.:what:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=19897&highlight=Nudist
 
I figure if I need to wear a gun around the house, I'm in the wrong neighborhood.
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Im on the other side of the track on this one boys. I think this crosses the line of paranoia. I would like to file this thread slightly under the "Gun in the shower" thread.
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I live in a rural farming area,very low crime rate. In the last year there have been several instances of intruders just walking into homes in this area.The homes where no one was home were burglarized,if they found the home occupied they muttered something about having the wrong house. ( I guess they figure it's a less severe crime if they don't break in) It happened at my sisters house and to a few others I know.Fortunately none of the intruders has resorted to violence but there would have been no time to go get a firearm if the homeowner wanted to. The intruders made a hasty retreat when they realized that someone was home in the cases I am aware of.
Until this started many of us rarely locked our doors, I mean we don't live in the wrong neighborhood.:rolleyes:
Two suspects have been arrested (18 yr old male and 19 yr old female if I remember correctly)
 
My CCW is still pending, but I've taken to carrying around the house as a "dry run". Already figured out about a dozen things on the "this will/won't work" list. :D
 
Until this started many of us rarely locked our doors
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Unfortunately in this day and age that is pretty much a thing of the past.

I remember back when I was a kid we did the same thing with the house, cars, shed ect but that is a thing of the past. At least in my eyes it is.
 
I carry at home because I'm new to the carry thing (the girlfriend is getting me into a class and giving me the $$ for the permit). I would rather be made by her almost every day so I can figure what works and what doesn't.
 
If i'm dressed, I have the holster and weapon on me...

my house is kinda well armed, never too far outta reach, so iffin I'm not clothed, they are still in arms reach...

IF I happen to be at my GF's place, or elsewhere where guns aren't stored at arms length, I stay clothed until it's necessary to get nekkid, then I keep my pants with the gun and holster very nearby, like on the floor, RIGHT NEXT TO my GF's bed... ;)
 
If I happen to come home with a beltgun I take it off. If I'm carrying a J-Frame in a pocket holster I am apt to forget it's there....Essex
 
I can't carry it around the house. Because.....they don't make a holster yet to acommadate one going around the house just wearing one's underwear.
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How about a Keltec p32 on a lanyard? :neener:

A guy I work with was a victim of a home invasion. They tried to kill him and his wife. They did not succeed, but he is rarely unarmed now.
 
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