How are your bedside guns stored?

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I'm a 3rd shifter, my wife a 1st and my kids are old enough and trained enough with my guns.

I keep a 9mm S&W loaded and chambered on my dresser in a holster. Don't bother with a long gun in the bedroom. With someone always awake in the house regardless of the time of day or night, I don't feel its necessary. I also keep a 9mm chambered and ready on my hip.
 
I am seriously wondering if you could be charged with insecure weapon if you were the only one living on your house and no one else is permitted to be there especially if the doors and windows are shut and locked ?
 
I am seriously wondering if you could be charged with insecure weapon if you were the only one living on your house and no one else is permitted to be there especially if the doors and windows are shut and locked ?
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If someone must break in to your home to gain access to your weapons, then I can't see how they could be considered "unsecured".

Now if you left the door unlocked or the windows unlocked, I think that would be a different story.
 
Just me in my house. It just sits in bed, right beside me, under the covers.

Russellc
 
Now days, and even back when I had a 1/2 dozen children, I kept a loaded revolver under my pillow, and a 18-1/2" barrel shotgun within easy reach without having to get out of bed. On my wife's side of the armory, I mean bed, is a 9mm on her night stand. I don't dare peek in her purse to see what see carry's in there, probably a taser no doubt, and likely 1 or 2 spare magazines for her firearm.

With 3 dogs as my alarm system, I have few concerns about a bad guy getting to my weapons before I do.

GS
 
gamestalker said:
Now days, and even back when I had a 1/2 dozen children, I kept a loaded revolver under my pillow, and a 18-1/2" barrel shotgun within easy reach without having to get out of bed. On my wife's side of the armory, I mean bed, is a 9mm on her night stand. I don't dare peek in her purse to see what see carry's in there, probably a taser no doubt, and likely 1 or 2 spare magazines for her firearm.

With 3 dogs as my alarm system, I have few concerns about a bad guy getting to my weapons before I do.

GS
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Noah said:
My twin brother and I share a bedroom with bunk beds in our basement, and we have a cabinet type safe in the room. My AR and his AK(s) are kept chamber empty, hammer down, safety off, full magazines in. At night and when we are home all day, we just leave the door to the safe open. When we leave the house or have any guests over, the safe is locked. Either way, I carry the key on my belt every moment I am awake. The safe is just a few feet from our beds.



All of this month, my Dad (normally sleeping upstairs with a handgun on the nightstand) has been in Florida training with the Army Reserves, so I've been upstairs on the couch, with a cushion right next to the couch with my AR, cell phone, flashlight, and Spyderco. And plate carrier. All at my mother's request haha.
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Sounds like you have a great Mom.
 
My kids grew up with guns so I handled things a bit differently. The biggest thing I think that could help you out is teaching at a VERY young age. My kids handled guns since I became their dad and my son since he was walking. Not shooting them, not unsupervised, but enough to be comfortable around them. They weren't that "special thing daddy always keeps me away from." I would actually ask my 2year old boy to bring me my rifle. The key for me was the next thing a parent should remember.

A gun is a piece of metal without ammo. I never lock them up. I secured the ammo rather than the guns. By doing that, I enhanced the training I mentioned before. They may have gotten one down at some point and gotten bored with it. The one time I caught my oldest with one I asked her to help me clean it.

While my son was under 5yrs old, I didn't have a handgun. Kept the wife happy. My HD weapon was either my H&R 20ga or a sword (yeah, I know the image of a guy in his boxers coming down the stairs with a Japanese sword in hand is setting all of you laughing out of your chairs). The AR joined them later as my wife took the shotgun to her side of the bed. I slid either of them under the bed or in the corner. The all important ammo (for HD purposes) was in a nondescript looking box in my nightstand. The rest of the ammo was always secured elsewhere by lock.

Now, with the kids a bit older and all of them having rifles in their own rooms (the older two with ammo too), my 1911 is either with me or near the front door. My LR-308 and AR-15 are on shelves 5' from my bed with a mag behind them, and the rest of my guns are in a cabinet (glass faced) beside my bed. The sword is still under the bed too, and my oldest has two of her own.

May God save the person who comes into my house unwelcome. Bows, swords, and guns from all directions! Oh and two ticked off dogs too! I always tell people that my alarm system has two audibles; Woof! and Bang!

I will say that I lock certain things up if we have children over. The ammo that is out gets put up.
 
All the research I have done points to the Fort Knox Pistol Box with mechanical Simplex lock. Here is a YouTube video.
 
Hometeached1 said:
Sounds like you have a great Mom.
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Yes I do. At one point she wouldn't even let us have a toy gun until my Dad felt sorry for us he made us some pretty awesome rifles out of plywood. The BB gun at 13 took a year of convincing her. 2 years later we were getting .22s, single shot shotguns, and my Dad was getting my grandpa's Mossberg 500 and a pistol. All kept unloaded and locked though. Now 5 or 6 years after that BB gun, my Dad has his CCW, she is planning on getting hers, she sleeps with her S&W SD9VE loaded in the drawer next to her with the (loaded) Mossberg and a baseball bat in the closet, and during most days it's weird if there ISN'T an AR or AK hanging out in the living room corner or on top of the computer desk/cabinet thing while we are having family time in the living room, and if she comes downstairs and finds my brother dry firing in our area in the basement in a plate carrier and camouflage or me cleaning a rifle she'll just make sure we're done with our laundry and ask how school was haha.

When she saw me coming upstairs with a rifle and loaded up plate carrier when I went to change into PJs, she gave me a funny look. I said, "It has my spare magazines and it has a buletproof vest in it." and she said "Oh, that's good!" with a smile.

But gun stuff aside, ya she's the best Mom I could ever imagine and I'm a very, very lucky boy, thanks for helping me keep that in mind.
 
Noah said:
Yes I do. At one point she wouldn't even let us have a toy gun until my Dad felt sorry for us he made us some pretty awesome rifles out of plywood. The BB gun at 13 took a year of convincing her. 2 years later we were getting .22s, single shot shotguns, and my Dad was getting my grandpa's Mossberg 500 and a pistol. All kept unloaded and locked though. Now 5 or 6 years after that BB gun, my Dad has his CCW, she is planning on getting hers, she sleeps with her S&W SD9VE loaded in the drawer next to her with the (loaded) Mossberg and a baseball bat in the closet, and during most days it's weird if there ISN'T an AR or AK hanging out in the living room corner or on top of the computer desk/cabinet thing while we are having family time in the living room, and if she comes downstairs and finds my brother dry firing in our area in the basement in a plate carrier and camouflage or me cleaning a rifle she'll just make sure we're done with our laundry and ask how school was haha.

When she saw me coming upstairs with a rifle and loaded up plate carrier when I went to change into PJs, she gave me a funny look. I said, "It has my spare magazines and it has a buletproof vest in it." and she said "Oh, that's good!" with a smile.

But gun stuff aside, ya she's the best Mom I could ever imagine and I'm a very, very lucky boy, thanks for helping me keep that in mind.
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I like it! The way it should be! My kids would love to meet someone who doesn't think its weird that they have their guns hung on their wall above their bed.
 
gdcpony said:
I like it! The way it should be! My kids would love to meet someone who doesn't think its weird that they have their guns hung on their wall above their bed.
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It really irks me how often people at work or even in the family's first response to my gun ownership, especially black rifles, is "Why do you need that?" or "Is that even legal?" or some insulting joke referring to shooting an intruder, usually referencing some simple worldly valuables I could care less about. I get pretty tired of people thinking I'm a nut- it should be pretty normal, yes. Shooting the AR is just like playing a fine musical instrument, it's a focusing and relaxing pursuit, and why should I bet my family's life waiting for the police to bring their ARs when I have my own?

But yes, assure your children that there are people under 21 who think that's normal and cool, and that guns are better wall decorations than jerseys or movie posters, more fun than parties, girls or guitars, and better protection than a improvised club, macho ego, or helpless begging. And that like my whole family, people's minds can change. When I was 14 I had no idea a private citizen could own an AR or carry a handgun, and my Mom would have lost it at the idea of a loaded gun in the house.
 
Here's one idea for keeping a long gun accessible but secured from young children:

http://www.amazon.com/ShotLock-S-SL...=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1390693485&sr=1-1

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I think I've seen a similar product that fits AR's but I can't find it at the moment.
 
My side glock 19 her side a sig p238 fully loaded ready to go not to me film the sub 2k her side the AR my side and the 870 12 gauge behind the bedroom door
 
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What gun safe?? That is one more thing to fiddle with before defending your space. My guns are all loaded in the house, including those in the bedside table with attached lights. I want to see clearly what I am going to shoot if needed. I carry during the day at home. At night the alarm system is the first line of defense. No children and no dogs or cats. Cameras covering all of the perimeter of the house for the After Assement Debrief for my lawyers. YMMV but I have my space protected my way which I believe is the best function of Safety.
 
Uncle Mikes holster screwed to the bed rail,,,

Uncle Mikes holster screwed to the bed rail,,,

I'm a single man and never have children at my home,,,
So unless my Maine Coon Cat grows thumbs,,,
I feel fairly safe using this method.

Aarond

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Condition 1 in holster on the night stand.

I like having a conscious act required before my finger can hit the trigger.
 
I have a safe on my nightstand that I open when I go to bed and lock when I wake. I have a shotgun in the closet secured in a rack with a lock.

I'm a single man and never have children at my home,,,
So unless my Maine Coon Cat grows thumbs,,,
I feel fairly safe using this method.
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As long as it's in a holster, had a buddy that kept his Glock loaded on nightstand and the cat capped off a round when it scampered across the nightstand, luckily only the bathroom took any damage.
Of course A maine coon's big paws might not fit in the trigger guard. lol
 
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