gun under pillow solution?

[Model520Fan]

I don't think that there is one right way, primarily because we do not all sleep the same way. Twenty years ago, I used to consider an S&W Model 40 quite safe under my pillow, and I still believe that it was. Now, I consider any gun under my pillow as less than optimally safe, and usually have something a little more powerful and a little less foolproof than a Centennial.

Most of us know ourselves well enough to know what is possible, particularly those who have a wife's observations on behavior during sleeping hours. Anyone intelligent enough to own a gun responsibly, which is almost every one of us, is intelligent enough to figure out how and where a gun should be stowed during sleeping hours.

 

[BHPshooter]

What really bothers me is how my AR15 pokes out from both sides of the pillow!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

You get a gold star for thinking outside the box.
Wes

 

[RevDisk]

I just keep my SAR-1 next to my bed when I sleep. (Uhm, it gets lonely in the safe?) Definitely need to add the bayonet lugs when the AWB sunsets.

I think a AK knockoff with a 40 rd magazine and a bayonet would definitely give an intruder a phobia of breaking and entering. Glad I'm not in a People's Republic, they'd probably make me pay for his therapy.

Perhaps I should also keep a camera handy to capture the really surprised look on any intruder's face?

 

[Darrin]

With my old king size bed, I had a .40 under my pillow and a 12ga on the other half of the bed.

Currently I only have a .357 under the pillow. (and maybe a derringer next to the bed along with a 12ga by the door)

 

[Smoke]

And just how many guys here have a stuffed animal collection on the bed?

Maybe the question should be: "Just how many guys here admit to having a stuffed animal collection on the bed?

With my old king size bed, I had a .40 under my pillow and a 12ga on the other half of the bed.

A girl works much better in the spot occupied by the gauge.

Just my $0.02

Smoke

 

[Sindawe]

Here's a thought...

not that I do this. My solution differs, and I ain't talking

Waterbed frame, keep water mattress or replace w/ air mattress. 'Tween the frame and the mattress, tuck 12 Guage, loaded with ammution of choice. At head or primary side of lightest sleeper/best shot. 2nd shotgun or pistol/carbine at head/side of 2nd shooter.

 

[jacketch]

A big enough pistol in a padded holster and you won't need a pillow

 

[Zedicus]

IE: Tarrus .454 Raging Bull?

 

[sendec]

Sleep on a water bed

Overfill bed until ready to burst

Intruder enters. Shoot mattress with gun under pillow that otherwise leaves funny lines shaped like a pistol on your face when you wake up. High pressure tactical tsunami flushes intruder from room while exploding mattress catapults homeowner to ceiling, where he/she siezes BUG from light fixture.

Splash down. Emerge from water like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, but a mean, violent, Conservative Martin Sheen. Finish off intruder by drowning. Dry room completely.

When police respond, do not consent to search and act outraged at any implication that you could be involved in a mysterious drowning that occurred on the 17th floor of an apartment building.

I would never sleep with a gun within arm's length of the bed - I'm married

 

[Dr.Rob]

Keep it in a rug or in a holster under the pillow NEXT to you. Woke up with a funny crick in my neck sleeping on a 44.

The waterbed reply was funny.

Tam's reply made me think "Don't make me reach for Mr. Snuggles!" He's packing serious heat.

I used to have a waterbed frame I converted to a regular mattress... there was 6 inch gap at the bottom of the bed. So I filled the gap with a couple of Navajo blankets.. and a double barrel shotgun. My girlfriend never knew it was there.

 

[Justin]

There's a reason for why they invented the bedside nightstand.

"One day you're gonna lay down too hard on one of those things and blow your head off." -Buscemi, "Desperado"

 

[Diamondback]

After considerable reflection I have come to what I think to be a reasonable compromise: all my guns go under the pillow............and I sleep in the safe.

 

[CrudeGT]

I have a tendency to throw things that are in the hands when I fall asleep. I know from one day waking up, and the only memory I from the nght before is falling asleep while talking on the cordless phone. Cordless phone is broken and a large hole a appeared in the wall. Dad never beleived that rabid varmint excuse.

I sleep with my gun on a shelf in my nightstand, about 2 feet from my head. And my shotgun (unchambered, something about the sound of racking the slide, I think it'll have a greater affect on an intruder than my running out with the gun), is kept in between bed and nightstand, about a foot and a half to the right.


I read someone elses idea of how this sort of thing would go, if he woke up to intruder. Something like this

"i wake to hear something break and someone mumble in angression in my kitchen. I quietly, sit up in bed, and slip into my combat gear, put my glasses on, and grab my rifle, equiped with bayonnet. And I charge into the kitchen. I feel the terror will likely scare the intruder away. Not the terror from my rifle, but the terror coming mostly from my 'combat gear' which consists of a WWII army helmet, mil spec combat boots, and military issue boxers,with ruber duckies on them"