Night Stand Gun

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pump action with night sights is a good option. Something about the sound the action "chack chang" I guess is the universal oh crap for bad guys. Only bad thing is the length of the barrel. I don't know what the min length is any more.

What is sitting next to me within reach is a semi-auto with a mag of ammo that is labeled as "home personal defense ammunition" and a mag loaded with JHP which is labeled as home defense. I liked the idea of using such labeled ammo so anything labeled "predator, marksman, etc." against me in court. I also have a sturdy flashlight.

Then again if someone breaks in my house they might kill themselves on all the junk scattered everywhere.

Guns for night stand (getting back to the post)
Anything you know will shoot and fit in that night stand. take into consideration what will happen if you miss. That bullet will go through most walls.
 
An S&W 1076 w/ night sights in 10mm with Black Talons, a chief's special .38 snub with glasers under pillow and M1 carbine handy, plus I sleep 3 feet from safe.

(I'd use shotgun, but in FL it's hard to get homeowner insurance, so I am responsible for patching in the aftermath.)

My nightstand has so much junk on it, I would never find a gun!
 
H2O MAN just reminded me how ugly Glocks are, lol. Butt ugly. Fugly. :) Anyway, my nighstand gun is an ugly S&W M&P 9. 17+1 in the pipe just in case my eyes are glued shut in the middle of the night with sleep crud and I can't focus. Also, I hope to soon have CT grips on it to help my low speed, big drag self.
 
When I take it off my belt at night I lay it on my night stand. My wife does the same.
 
My Mossberg 590A1 with 18.5" barrel is under my side of the bed but it is not loaded since I have young children in the house. So I'd reach over to the nightstand and enter the 4 digit code on the safe for quick access to my fully loaded Glock 19 with Tritium Fiber Optic night sites and the TLR-2 light on it. I put it in the safe with the light on it every night and I can get acces to it as quickly as opening a drawer. By the way, the safe rocks. You can see one here. No, I don't sell them. But I really like this little safe since it's easy to open, has an automatic light inside that comes on upon opening that stays on for about 5 seconds, holds extra goodies and is very inexpensive. There are 12 gauge shells and extra G19 mags in the safe too. Yeah, I know... The weapons aren't as readily available as some of you think they should be. But I can't leave loaded weapons out with the kids in the house.
 
anything with a light rail or
anything with some sort of light so you know what you re shooting.

ive got a 6920
 
I take my XD45 compact out of the holster, put in the 13 rd magazine, and put it on the desk next to my bed.

Plus there's a mossy 500 18.5" barrel with ghost rings and 00buck hanging up in the closet
 
I bought a Mossberg 500a for critter control around the farm my parents were renting. But, I quickly figured out that should I ever need it for home defense, it's WAY too big, long and bulky to carry through the house. The barrel combined with the buttstock was the problem. If I needed to shoot it quickly or in a confined area or both, I was screwed. I had to fully mount the shotgun to aim or fire reasonably. Also, the thing was so friggin' long that I was deathly afraid that it'd be snatched from me in the event of a break in if I came through a doorway with a BG on the other side. The gun would come through the doorway a good 3 feet or so before I could even see the BG. Then I figured out a couple catholic priests from my sister's past followed us half way across the country with the intent on taking her out. (eliminating witnesses, no joke) I then took the opportunity to buy some buckshot and turn my shotgun into a tactical shotgun. I bought a pistol grip, stuck the 20" barrel on the gun, stuck a 6 shell holder on the side of the reciever, had to buy a new frontend to avoid hitting the shellholder with the stock frontend grip because the stock one overlaps the reciever at full pump. That made it WAY shorter and much faster and easier to shoot quickly without fully mounting the gun. However, just because it's stereotypically superior for home defense, I would not recommend a shotgun. I would highly recommend a high capacity case-spitter. Take a high-capacity auto that fits like a glove, puts the center of gravity as close to the center of your grip as possible, shoots a cartridge you're comfortable with and aims naturally. All the rest of the details are opinion and people will tell you what works best FOR THEM. You however need what's best for you. Oh, almost forgot! You need it to have a tactical rail and you need to mount a flashlight to that rail. After taking my altered Mossberg through the house well after dark to see what I'd be facing if these priests should murder again I figured out that it's almost impossible to see, let alone aim and shoot accurately in a high stress, high adrenaline situation when it's pitch dark inside. Also, there's legal issues about shooting someone in the pitch black of night and not being able to see them. The lawyers will argue that you shouldn't have shot him because if you couldn't see then you didn't really know for sure that he had a weapon, was agressive, posed an immediate lethal threat to yourself or your family, yak yak yak... If you used a light, you'd put all that B.S. to rest. Also, when it's pitch black inside and you flip on a tactical rail mounted SureFire and start yelling to drop the weapon and get your hands up (and such things), they're probably gonna do it because they know you've got a gun, and they're now blinded and their eyes are watering. You'll be able to see where you're aiming, you'll shut the lawyers up and you might just defuse the situation before it turns lethal. Besides that, a high capacity auto loader has many more bullets than a shotgun and can shoot them faster, it's more comfortable to use, more mobile, and there's less chance of it getting snatched from you because you're carrying around an anti-aircraft cannon in CQB.

BTW, they're not suspects in the murder case because the cops that have jurisdiction over the case are 1) catholic and refuse to raise a hand against a priest, 2) graduated with their criminal justice degree from the very catholic university the priests last worked at and are therefore scared of having their degree confiscated, and 3) have recieved so many phony and worthless tips pointing to the catholic priests that the cops refuse to even listen to more people pointing to priests. When my sister tried giving her statement over the phone (we were about 1600 miles away and therefore made a in-person visit impossible) they listened until she said "two priests" and promptly cut her off and hung up on her. Problem is that both priests knew she saw them in the act and they traced us via the church we went to half way across the country when we moved. Since then I moved back home, my parents quietly moved to the other side of the state and my sister joined the navy as a form of self imposed witness protection because those ^!((#^@$$*% cops won't bother to listen to her, protect her, and help her. We've now given them the slip and they're gonna get away with murder because the case has hit the cold case file and the cops refuse to look into anything leading towards catholic priests. This whole experience has made me more bitter and predjudice against law enforcement than actual murderers. "Serve and protect" MY ASS!! Also, my new personal motto is now "Never trust a catholic priest unless you're packing heat."

Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. I needed that. Here's to the moderators not deleting my post! heh
 
Jaenak, if ya don't call the feds its your fault.... local police are not always the answer. Some fed agencies love to eat corrupt locals - and inept ones! Murder cases have no statute of limitations. I would likely get them involved and be done with the idiots.



BTW without doin that it seems like a BS story...

there is also the news etc...
 
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