Do you wear your holster at home?

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I have to wear a holster around the house for safety. But there's no room for a firearm in it.
 
I carry whenever I leave the property. I will not pack heat at home. Home is where we feel safe and secure. Our home is half a mile up the side of a mountain in Oregon and we own all the land around it clear to the highway below (1000 feet below and half a mile away as the crow flies). We have three passive motion detectors/transmitters located down the driveway with receivers in two parts of the house (bedroom and dining room/kitchen) our dogs are very large and agressive and crotch trained (that's where they bite first and hang on) they weigh over eighty pounds each. By the time the transmitters go off and the dogs launch I've got my pump twelve gauge in hand with six #4 buck magnum loads. Don't need no stinkin pistol in my own home.
 
Shi'ite, mpmarty!

What's the 12 Gauge for? So you can shoot a little skeet while waiting for the dogs to drag the unconscious intruder to your feet?
 
lock your door, secure all windows. That should give you enough time to reach your weapons?
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Nope. Watching the Cops show on TV cured me of this misconception.

I watched entry teams break in to serve warrants time after time. People would be sitting with a gun no more than two steps away from them and yet they couldn't get to it before the cops were on top of them.

I don't carry at home because I think it's likely that I'll need the gun. I know it's terribly UNlikely that anything will happen. I carry because the consequences of NOT having it when you need it are unthinkable and because doing it is so easy that there's really no downside.

This topic always interests me. I see people getting so upset at the idea of people carrying at home that they feel the need to namecall. I can see people choosing one option or the other, but it's always a bit surprising that some people get so bent out of shape about it. I've gradually come to realize that some people believe (probably at a not quite conscious level) that NOT carrying at home somehow makes them safer.

It's almost as if some people feel that carrying a gun will somehow increase the likelihood that violent crime will come their way. Like it will jinx them somehow. As if denying the possibility and demonstrating with their actions that they don't believe it's possible will have a tangible and positive affect on whether they are the victim of violent crime in their home.

My parents used to feel this way about keeping their doors locked. They didn't like the idea, and the dislike went far beyond a simple preference. I think that they were holding onto the times in their youth when they never locked the doors, and were feeling at some level that locking their doors would be an admission that those times were gone forever. And further that by making the admission, they would be somehow more vulnerable to the criminal element that they were refusing to acknowledge by leaving their doors unlocked. After I walked into their house undetected a few times through the garage door they like to leave open and/or unlocked, they started to think a bit differently.

The first step in taking constructive steps to crime prevention is admitting that it can happen to you. It's a tough step--one that many people actually resist strenuously. It's not uncommon for people to go right through the entire process of being a victim before they get it through their heads that it not only CAN happen but it IS happening or DID happen to them. You see them on the news being interviewed saying that "I never believed it would/could happen to me." or "Even while I was being robbed/attacked/etc. I couldn't believe it was actually happening to me."

You don't have to believe it's LIKELY--it's NOT likely. But it's not impossible either. People compare it to winning the lottery--and although the odds of winning the lottery are actually much slimmer, someone wins the lottery nearly every week.
 
Not usually around the house unless I'm too lazy to go to the safe when I get home (which is the case right now--I've been home for 4-5 hours and its still in my pocket holster).

When I'm out, I pretty much always carry. I'd just feel like such an idiot if the one time I didn't bring it I needed it. I don't want my last thought to be about how big an idiot I was. :D
 
Do you wear your holster at home?
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only if i am comming or leaving, i normally don't walk around with a gun on my hip in the house, unless of course i am prcticing my draw, or combat reloads. in which case the weapon is unloaded and cleared befoe doing so.
 
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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.
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How about a Keltec p32 on a lanyard?
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Hey... a P-3at with a belt clip is light enough not to bring the undies down to half mast. I work from home. I know these things. :D A pair of Big Dogs and a P-3at is my work uniform most mornings.

The rest of the time it's any of my CCW's in a holster. I am not brave enough to carry the Wife's Glock Mexican.
 
The foremost reason I have a gun is for protection at home. It would be really stupid not have it within instant reach at all times.
I carry 24/7!
 
Like many of the others here have mentioned, I carry at home, and use whatever method of carry I used earlier in the day. Have a few comfy carry rigs and it's no burden.
 
Since it get to be kinda of a PITA when curled up on the couch with my lady watching a movie, I tend to take mine off when I'm home for the night. But if I'm up and active, I normally have one on me, in either my carry holster or a fobus paddle. If I know I'm not going back out, its normally in the fobus.
 
Why I carry at home:

Not usually around the house unless I'm too lazy to go to the safe when I get home (which is the case right now--I've been home for 4-5 hours and its still in my pocket holster).

When I'm out, I pretty much always carry. I'd just feel like such an idiot if the one time I didn't bring it I needed it. I don't want my last thought to be about how big an idiot I was.
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The bolded part is exactly why I carry at home.
 
I carry all the time, everywhere I legally can, including at home. If I am not wearing a piece, one is in reach. Until I'm psychic enough to know when I will need it or criminals start making appointments, I'll go armed.
 
YES --- Not doing so is like trying to predict when to wear your seat belt while driving! Totally agree with Anna's Dad statement. My rigs are very comfortable; hardly know they're there!
 
I currently live less then 50 miles from 2 of the top 25 most dangerous cities.

I'd move... But I'm stationed here..:cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:

Carry at home... Yup.

Carry out.. Can't... No carry for the peasants, where I am.
 
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