How do you store your ready-to-go handgun?

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chambered XD9 on my night stand. Mossberg pump 4 shells in the tube, arms reach from the bed. AR-15 full mag not chambered in the closet.

Handguns hot, long guns not!

During the day, handgun in the kitchen drawer, shotgun in the living room. I really don't see the point of putting a weapon in a safe next to your bed while you sleep, unless you have kids. It's not going to shoot itself, so why not have it easily accessible to you while you sleep?
 
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I really don't see the point of putting a weapon in a safe next to your bed while you sleep, unless you have kids. It's not going to shoot itself, so why not have it easily accessible to you while you sleep?
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I live in an apartment and my window is right next to the walk way and my nightstand right next to the window. All someone would have to do is break my window and they'd be a foot from my gun. The safes I looked at would only take a couple seconds to open (enough time to acquire my handgun before anyone enters) and would offer only me access to it.
 
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OP, before my daughter was walking, it was out in the open on my night stand. Now that she's scootin' around, I keep it in this: http://www.thesafeplace.com/handgun-safes/homak/pistol-box-hs10036685.html

It's big enough for 2 pistols, and bolts to my night stand. I've got an easy (for me and the wife) code, and takes me about a second to get into.
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Thanks for the safe suggestion and the website. Much less expensive and more quality than the other places I was looking.
 
AZ, I actually picked it up at Dunham's for like $60. I went to Walmart, and got a small motion sensored LED light (meant for hallways and such) for like $5 and mounted it to the top of the inside of the safe. So when I reach in, I can easily see my pistol in the dark. It also has holes in it so you can bolt it down.

I think it's a great deal, plus it fits 2 pistols comfotably. I can fit more if I stand them straight up and down on a rack or something.
 
FNP-45 sitting on the nightstand all the time, and a 357 in the living room on the entertainment center.

No kids obviously.
 
It's on my hip all day. When I retire for the evening it is on the floor next to the bed.
 
I am sitting right now with on in my left pocket, there is one 10 feet away out of sight but ready to go and another one near the bed out of sight and ready to go.
 
I keep my bedside gun in the drawer of my nitestand. I also have a couple otherplaces in the house on top of high cabinets. I have 4 teens but only one likes guns, He has his own but likes to borrow mine. He says mine are better than his.........he's right:) I don't allow him to keep his loaded. He's 16.

The rest are in a locked cabinet, in the truck and one in the shed. All out of sight but easy access.
 
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I never really thought about that, probably when he's 18 and has his own place.

We have friends that occasionally visit who have kids of all ages. Of course the younger ones want to hang out with the older ones. He keeps his put up, the ammo is put up somewhere else in his room. In the event that a younger visiter stumbled on it, i'd prefer it was empty.

Thats the same reason I keep mine out of sight and high up. I have been eyeing those finger opening safes but haven't gotten one yet.
 
Thats the same reason I keep mine out of sight and high up. I have been eyeing those finger opening safes but haven't gotten one yet.
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This is a good option, both for you, and for him when he starts keeping his gun loaded. I was given a GunVault Microvault for Christmas, and it is a great safe.
 
I have no children around the house. My SD firearm is always located on my body or within arms length away from me. Yes it is loaded: Cocked and Locked. Not that I am afraid, but I make the best darn cookies in the State and people try to steal my recipe. :>)

Safe shooting,
Vv
 
If you can make molasses, m&m, and chocolate chip cookies like my grandma did you better watch out, throw in that you can make apple and cherry pie like great g-ma and i'm tellin you now.......i'm on my way and ain't nothing gonna stop me:)

I just gotta be back here by 6am to get the kids on the bus and go to work.
 
My handguns are actually scattered throughout my condo, hidden from plain view (well one is in plain view, but where you wouldn't expect it to be and amongst a group of airsoft guns). The one nearest my bed is actually a shotgun. All of my handguns are loaded and chambered (or chambered x5 in the case of my revolver, and my shotguns are loaded with the chamber empty, safety off.
 
The airsoft guns are on top of the table, the real one is underneath. But it's close enough that at a quick glance you wouldn't register "oh, there's a gun there". My friends know which one is real, and if I'm going to have people over I secure my firearms.
 
In an unlocked lock box I got at Walmart for $30.00, on an eye level shelf in my closet, which is right next to my bed. I have a red light on in the walk in closet at night so I can see if I need to get there fast without remembering to turn a light on, that would draw a lot of attention to begin with. During the day the box is locked. My EDC is on me, and the rest of the rotation is locked up. When I'm not home the box is locked. It's screwed to the shelf.

Just a few nights ago I actually almost went for it for the first time. I heard some noises, figured it was my son going to the bathroom or getting a drink of water. These are familiar sounds. I know them. But I heard hurried foot steps, loud noises from the wrong places. My guts knotted up and I lept for the closet. Then I saw my son dash down the hall with a big bowl (I leave the door open) headed for the bathroom, nauseous. My nine year old son was handling middle-of-the-night illness, solo, for the first time, making a lot of noise. I never made it to the shelf. Once I stood up I saw what was up and went to help him out. But that momentary feeling of dread, reflex action and tunnel vision focus. I still get goosebumps remembering it. The cretin that attempts to invade my home will get the business end of that reflex action.
 
But that momentary feeling of dread, reflex action and tunnel vision focus. I still get goosebumps remembering it.
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Very scary indeed. I have gotten my gun out of my quick-access safe once because my dogs started barking and there were shadows visible in the windows from people moving outside. It turns out that they were running around playing tag for a birthday party.....really spooked me because a couple weeks before I had caught two men peeking into my home at 11:00 at night...
 
I don't have to worry about children in my home anymore, so I keep a fully loaded gun in a cheap nylon holster in the drawer of my night stand. I would never carry the gun in that holster, but it keeps the lint of whatever out of the gun, and covers the trigger while I'm groping for it in the dark.
 
Maybe a bit unorthodox, but since I sleep on my back and do not move, my handgun is usually on the bed under the covers next to my right hand.

Works for me, but as always, YMMV.
 
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