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As Sparky used to say, "Bless you, boys!"
When my Dad’s lifelong friend sold his Oklahoma ranch 30 years ago, he gathered up about 2 dozen guns he had around the house and shipped most of them to an FFL here in Texas for me & my two brothers to divide.Many years ago, I was trying to help a friend who had recently lost her husband, who was a very good friend. She mentioned that she had found at least one gun in several different rooms. That's when I began to wonder.... I asked her to point me towards the rooms where she had not found a gun. After some searching, we found a gun in every one of those rooms too. Then it was on to the three outbuildings!
No, just the one that's always on me."Oh my Gawd....do you have a gun in every room?"
"What's it to you, snake?"do you have a gun in every room?
I carry most of the time around the house...and I pretty much agree with the above quote from NIGHT. In my case, my grand-daughters ages 5-11 live 100 yds from our farm house...they're over almost daily and they bring any friends along that happen to be visiting.....you get the point....I trust my girls, but ... an oz. of prevention goes a long way. Rod,,,yep, I'm carrying right now even with my sciatic acting up....No offense intended but I think leaving an unsecured firearm anywhere in your home is really dumb thing to do.
Pretty sure that most, if not hopefully all of us here fully grasp that if we have children (or non-family visitors, or strangers over) in the house, any handgun not worn on the body will be secured in the safe or a locked container. That'd fall into the category of common sense.In my case, my grand-daughters ages 5-11 live 100 yds from our farm house...they're over almost daily and they bring any friends along that happen to be visiting.....you get the point....I trust my girls, but ... an oz. of prevention goes a long way.
Naw, that's not a problem. Bed, Bath and Beyond and Home Goods both sell a great shower holster. (If you can't afford one of those, I highly recommend the Ziploc Gallon Freezer Bags and a wire clothes hanger...)It's not a problem till your zipping the Glock 17 with mag extenders to 25 rounds in the water proof bag for "Shower" time.
And that ... would be a different kettle of fish entirely. The thread topic at hand is "guns in every room of the home." Cars (and trucks) are ridiculously easy to break into. If one was to postulate that leaving an unsecured firearm in a motor vehicle is really dumb, I'll be the first to agree.FWIW an inmate of the Otero County Jail escaped from a hospital last night. He stole the first car he found which had an unsecured firearm under the driver's seat
I have two English Mastiffs, both are less friendly to strangers than I am....and I am not that friendly to non-strangers.
I actually do think too much of my Glocks to keep one in the shower. I do have a cheaper but reliable stainless handgun in there though.Pretty sure that most, if not hopefully all of us here fully grasp that if we have children (or non-family visitors, or strangers over) in the house, any handgun not worn on the body will be secured in the safe or a locked container. That'd fall into the category of common sense.
But for those of us who have a ritual of securing our firearms when the alcohol is brought out, or the non-drinkers, who live in situations in which children rarely or never visit, for someone who doesn't know everyone's circumstances yet states un-secured firearms inside the home is a dumb (another word for stupid) idea, is simply being judgmental, pure and simple. The concept of treating everyone as though they don't know any better and making up rules based on the lowest common denominator is a fairly recent phenomenon, championed by those of the leftist, liberal persuasion. That's how we've arrived at the Nanny State. I've found that treating everyone as if they're actually a responsible adult garners better results than acting as though I know better than everyone else and characterizing those with whom I don't agree as "dumb."
Naw, that's not a problem. Bed, Bath and Beyond and Home Goods both sell a great shower holster. (If you can't afford one of those, I highly recommend the Ziploc Gallon Freezer Bags and a wire clothes hanger...)
DIdn't I post one of their Christmas specials? The "Tactical Stocking"
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"Oh my Gawd....do you have a gun in every room?"
I don't know the OP's relationship with his guest, but I'm somewhat judicial about revealing my weapons and their locations.
I don't leave them stashed. Too easy to find if someone breaks in while I'm gone.
Where I grew up in very rural Pa, we did have a gun in every room. mostly because we didn't have a gun cabinet I guess. Every corner had a rifle leaning in it.
Well, in the immortal words of the legendary actor Patrick Swayze as "Dalton" in the classic motion picture Road House would say, "Opinions vary."
Well, not all of us reside in similar circumstances. My house is fairly well-hardened and it doesn't matter if we're home or not in the home. Every door and ground-floor window is hardened and alarmed. It'd be a major hassle just to even break-in through a window, and before anyone even got a leg inside, the alarm will be screeching loud enough to wake the dead, the strobe light on the front of the house will be seen by commercial airliners at 35,000 feet, the alarm company will already have notified the entire family and dispatched law enforcement. The two alarm systems with battery back-up will work (if potential burglars can jam the Wi-Fi, cut my cable internet and landline phone line, they must be targeting the wrong house and be part of the IMF or maybe DEVGRU). There's always at least one trained GSD on duty inside the house, usually two plus the bonus psycho Rottweiler mix. Motion sensors and lights outside, 360 degrees of camera coverage outside and in the living, dining, family rooms and hallways.
In any event, all firearms are returned to the safes (over 1K pounds apiece, bolted down, which will take quite a while to break into) when we leave the house for any extended length of time, if we leave for a weekend or a vacation, we've got family to house-sit. If we're at home, pretty confident we'll know immediately if someone is attempting to get inside.
Anyway, I digress. Obviously, were I ever to go back to being an apartment dweller (not likely), I would radically change my gun storage routine.