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Okay here we go, I am trying to prepare as best as possible for a possible HD situation. Here is what I have. In the nightstand I keep my pistol with a rail mounted light. Next to the pistol is a small bag on a lanyard where I keep a spare mag, a knife, and a backup flashlight. What I am trying to figure out is what am I overlooking. I am not trying to add other weapons to my set up but was wondering what else do people keep handy to respond to a threat or situation. i.e. clothing, shoes, what?

I tried to search this but could not come up with any threads.
 
I have a 3 part set up. It might be overkill but it suits my personality.

1. The "check it out pack"
This is a hip pack, one of those concealed carry kind. In it is a 45 with 13 in and 13 in a spare mag. It has a rail mounted laser and light. I can draw out of this in 2 seconds. I like the idea of not looking like a nut if something odd happens. I just look like a weird guy with big hip pack and his underwear :)

2. The "you woke me at the foot of my bed"
Is a .38 with a laser and corbon DPX loads just inside the slightly opened top drawer.

3. The "I heard my door kicked in"
Is a pistol grip 12 guage with a laser and light mounted just under the bed.

A cell phone and a land line for the 911 call. I think 911 would respond better to a distressed lady so her job is to make the call and retreat to the closet with one of the other guns.

I do not have any children so they are all loaded. If I had kids I think I would have to get one of those biometric safes and make it a one gun thing.

Brad
 
Phone, light, gun, and you've pretty much got the bases covered. If you share a bed with someone, how bout an extra gun for the bunk buddy?
 
I never considered the first aid kit, focus on large clotting materials.

I would also consider adding a few large zip ties in the event you need to bind hand/ankles. Not that I advocate holding people, but you never know...
 
What am I overlooking.
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You're overlooking the fact that the more complex the mechanism the more prone it is to failure.

I have a handgun on my nightstand. nothing more



. The "you woke me at the foot of my bed
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He's there looking specifically for you and you're dead.
 
yes, first aid kit. (I'm a corpsman, leave it up to me) Quik Clot is the best to keep him alive, or patch yourself up from a reall bleeder temporarily.

Don't need binding cuffs, thats what knee shot are for
 
Note to self: Obtain a nightstand.

I keep a Rayovac one AAA LED penlight near the bed, a land line telephone on the floor "over there" and sometimes I have a 44" stick, which is actually a mop handle that was sawn off, just below where it broke.

If I get up in the middle of the night, I use the Penlight.
Yes, it provides enough light to tinkle by, or head down to the kitchen.
Kitchen has the 8" cast iron skillet.



The less stuff you own, the less stuff you gotta dust.-yours truly
 
I agree with everyone that said phone. My philosophy is that the by the bed stuff isn't just for home defense. A loaded pistol and flashlight won't help you if you're trapped in your room by fire. (Like the hot burny kind, not the incoming kind.)

That said, wifey and I have a flashlight on both nightstands, a loaded but not chambered 9mm and a cellphone on mine, and a shotgun in easy reach on the way to the door.

It may require a whole other topic, but don't discount the need for a pre-plan. It's cool to have the gun there to grab if the need arises, but take a couple minutes to think through what your actions would be in a couple basic scenarios with regards to the layout of your house. Keep kids locations in mind if applicable, where you have other weapons stored, viable exits that you might have, and that kind of thing.

bdub.
 
Quick grabs by the bed for the shotties, ammo somewhere else. Always the phone. One phone is a speaker phone with local LEO's speed dialed into it and the other will be a cell.

That phone will be the top item. If there is going to be trouble with a intrusion of your home, it's worth getting the LEO's involved even it might take em a few moments or minutes to arrive.

You pretty much covered the basics.

Be be aware that it is possible for intruder to very quietly get to your night stand, particularly after a holiday party causing YOU to snore very heavy in dreamland with the beverages or medicines that might be present in your system.

Think about everyone in the household besides yourself. My spouse has her arms, as I do mine. Very expensive in the beginning, but worth it because we are a team, equal.

In for that to work, there must be absolute trust that both spouses can have a rather heated disagreement (Agreeing to disagree) to hammer out a problem in a room designated a nuetral room with no weapons present. Tempers have a way of bringing weapons into the argument.

Something to think about eh?

Try not to over think it. One example... a simple bullet from outside in the right places of the house can get you hurt really bad.... thus a first aid kit with a very large patch/clot stopping power... much more beyond those basic wally world bandaids.

You might have to render first aid after a fight.

Finally, are there children in the home? If so... you are going to have to be very careful.
 
In for that to work, there must be absolute trust that both spouses can have a rather heated disagreement (Agreeing to disagree) to hammer out a problem in a room designated a nuetral room with no weapons present. Tempers have a way of bringing weapons into the argument.
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:eek: Posts like this make me not want to get married... I can't speak for everyone, but I always thought it should be a prerequisite to marrying/moving in with someone that you wouldn't solve your issues Mr. and Mrs. Smith style by shooting up the trailer park.
 
In for that to work, there must be absolute trust that both spouses can have a rather heated disagreement (Agreeing to disagree) to hammer out a problem in a room designated a nuetral room with no weapons present. Tempers have a way of bringing weapons into the argument.
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People who cannot have a disagreement with their spouses without bring weapons into the mix shouldn't have weapons period. There is a certain level of maturity that a person needs to have before they should even consider owning a weapon.

No rights are absolute and if a person can't trust themselves enough that they have to designate a weapons free room to argue in then they should live in a weapons free home. Who will guarantee that they will think to stop the argument and move to the weapons free room to continue.

Some people shouldn't have guns, or cars or even air.........
 
Note to self: Obtain a nightstand.
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That made me chuckle. I have a bookshelf, myself.

At any rate, revolver + spare loaders, flashlight (and a spare), cell phone. That's the baseline minimum.

I like the idea of the aid kit (though I'll be putting that in the closet with the bug-out bag, a separate deal).

The phone, as mentioned by many others is a darn good idea. Any high-quality defensive class that covers bump in the night can explain why better than I.

I also have a tasty knife or two, but that's sort of a vanity. On the other hand, the emerson clipped to the side of the bed may be easier to reach in a worst case scenario where someone is already on top of me; at that point I'd personally rather have mr. sharpie at hand than fluffy the pet revolver... other opinions may differ.

For whatever it's worth, I also have the clothes that I wore that day previous right next to me; I can throw on the pants, shoes and t-shirt and, in addition to being clothed, I'll have my wallet, belt, CWP, and a spare Emerson in the bargain. I always swap stuff out of pockets the following morning into whatever I'm wearing next.

I need to invest in a good quality flashlight.
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Again, FWEIW, I just picked up another one; so far, so good with this tool:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=5353265#post5353265
 
So I am NOT trying to restart and old thread that got me in a little trouble a few years back but for those of you who are considering zip ties as restraints just know that you can by a decent pair of cuffs for under $20 and for about 35 get some really nice ones.

As far as my nightstand kit (Which is actually a quick access safe for now)

1. M&P .40 loaded with good hollow points
2. 2 extra mags, I might not NEED 2 extras but I have pleanty of extra mags for the gun so why not fill them up
3. Streamlight TL2 Flashlight
4. 4C mag-light
5. 1 pair of ASP hand cuffs that I had from a prior job and 1 pair of super cheap $10 cuffs I bought at a local military surplus store
6. Cell phone.
 
5. 1 pair of ASP hand cuffs that I had from a prior job and 1 pair of super cheap $10 cuffs I bought at a local military surplus store
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I assume that you are using these for recreational purposes. Handcuffing or otherwise restraining an intruder is ranks up there as one of the stupidest things one can do.
 
My bedside kit:

Glock 34 with M6X laser/light combo loaded up with Speer Gold Dots, a separate light, and phone. In the same drawer, I also keep a large fixed blade knife and my pepper spray, but more for a lack of a better place to put it than for ready use.

Mossberg 590 under the bed loaded and ready to go. Both are usually locked until bedtime and locked before I leave for work so I don't have to worry too much about coming home to a burglar armed with my own kit.
 
I understand I touched a nerve regarding marriage and guns mixed with arguements.

Neither one of us thought about this at all until one of us asked the other, "Do you think that you will get angry enough to shoot in a arguement?"

Never thought of it like that, in fact spouse hasnt either until that one moment while we were discussing a family who was experiencing abuse without weapons in thier home.

I dont care for the Shooting up the trailer park thing but be that as it may, spouse and I are perfectly ok with weapons around the home when one of us sounds off about the other using too much toilet paper for example LOL.

:neener:

With that said, those with domestic abuse or other domestic problems with anger and abuse should never ever have weapons in thier homes, in fact that is just even worse than the original problem that causes the two to have trouble in the very beginning.

That is a can of worms going back as far as Adam and Eve I believe.

Cheers.
 
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