Keeping HD weapon loaded?

[Lou McGopher]

The reason I keep the chamber empty is that if someone broke in, the sound of a pump cycling sends a message that is understood in any language!

Maybe it will, if they hear it. Maybe you won't be so lucky.

I keep my shotty chamber empty, but only because I don't want to have a ND due to grogginess. If I can depress the slide-lock and rack the slide, I know I'm awake enough to be wielding a shotgun.

I keep my pistol near the bed with one in the chamber. But it's in a holster and the trigger pull on the pistol is a lot heavier and longer than it is for the shotgun.

 

[Erik M]

A very talkative older gentelman approached myself and my ladyfriend at the gun shop and told us how he kept 2 empty chambers in his revolver so that he could prove to an intruder that he ment business by pulling the hammer on a empty chamber twice before actually shooting them.

Whatever is on the nightstand has one in the pipe with the safety on.

 

[Boba Fett]

A very talkative older gentelman approached myself and my ladyfriend at the gun shop and told us how he kept 2 empty chambers in his revolver so that he could prove to an intruder that he ment business by pulling the hammer on a empty chamber twice before actually shooting them.

LOL Good grief.

I can see how that will end:


Home owner: "I mean business!" *click* *click*

Bad Guy: *BANG* *BANG* So do I!


Hours later, cops: "We think Mr. Grover did not fully load his revolver. We found two empty chambers. Maybe he was loading his gun and didn't have time to finish, maybe he figured he only needed three shots. We don't really know."

Reporter, "You say you found two empty chambers...doesn't that mean he got two shots off?"


All of us on THR "HA HA HA! Stupid reporter!" followed by "I feel sorry for that poor guy...I wonder what really happened..."

 

[wishin]

Erik M

You unwittingly solved a mystery. Knowing I'm a gun nut, my neighbors wife recently told me a story about her father coming home late one night. As she tells it, she thought it was an intruder and got their HD revolver and when her not so sober father heard the second click, he quickly identified himself. Now, I understand why there were two clicks. This older guy must have been her father!