"Oh my Gawd....do you have a gun in every room?"

[Leon tP]

I use to keep guns stashed about the house... but then I just started forgetting where. Don't laugh, it sucks

These days I keep two safes, one in the living room concealed within a locked hardwood furniture cabinet. It's bolted to the floor and weighs over 880 lbs... I keep the family and close friends 'show and tell' guns in there.
The other is in the bedroom closet, almost as big and has the -- family only -- for desperate social occasions, guns inside.

And then there's the CC -- I keep on me at all times. My, pants on - gun on, Gun.

 

[hso]

I was asked that by a guest last night.

I can't think of any guests that ever asked if I had a gun in every room. Nor would I respond to such a question from a guest.

 

[JTHunter]

In a 7 room house of less than 1,500 sq. ft., there is a hidden hand gun in the two most frequented rooms.
The rest are in the master bedroom. And all are fully loaded.
Don't chide me - no wife (anymore) and no kids so "no problemo".

 

[WestKentucky]

If I go to each room to verify that there’s one in each room, while carrying my ec9 in my pocket then I am saying that yes, there’s a gun in every room… that I’m in… but I can’t realistically and safely do much more than that with an almost 4yr old running and climbing everything.

 

[sgt127]

I have a gun on me. Always. It started when my kids were little and I was a working Police Officer. I didn’t have to think about “where I left my gun”. It was on me.

I still usually have a gun on me. But, I live alone. There’s an old 5” S&W M&P upstairs.

And, a Ruger Speed Six, on a hook, on the refrigerator.

 

[Creaky_Old_Cop]

I can't think of any guests that ever asked if I had a gun in every room. Nor would I respond to such a question from a guest.

I can't think of any guests that ever asked if I had a gun in every room. Nor would I respond to such a question from a guest.

I'm guessing you missed the part where I changed the subject?????

 

[TTv2]

I remember when I first heard of this concept was when I was listening to talk radio and a caller who lived in NYC had said he owns several rifles and shotguns as he finds them to be more useful depending on the room or home he's in, to which the host said that he had been told by multiple firearms instructors, police, and general gun owners that the reason to do it is because you never know which room you'll be in when a break in occurs or some other emergency develops.

Dog and other animal attacks are always forefront in my mind.

The fastest way to be armed is to have a gun nearest to you as possible, which means if you're not carrying 100% of the time on your person then you must have several placed within your residence; it's up to you whether you want to lock them up and increase the time it takes fumbling to get them out when the time comes they're needed.

 

[Tallball]

Maybe off-topic on a gun forum, but if you have a loaded firearm in every room of your home, or on your person at all times, it seems very odd not to have a decent dog to help out with security.

Mine weighs 100 pounds. If anyone is anywhere near the house, he lets me know. It's a small house and he can be in any room in about a second. If someone tries to climb over the tall fence, he will be right there barking his head off and snapping his fangs. When he takes me for a walk, the homeless guys or young hoodlum guys cross to the other side of the street when they see him.

He makes my home much safer than another dozen loaded firearms would.

 

[hso]

seems very odd not to have a decent dog to help out with security.

Guns don't shed, they don't have to be fed, watered, or sat, and people don't have allergies like they do with critters. Lotta folks can't have dogs.

 

[trackskippy]

Maybe off-topic on a gun forum, but if you have a loaded firearm in every room of your home, or on your person at all times, it seems very odd not to have a decent dog to help out with security.

Mine weighs 100 pounds. If anyone is anywhere near the house, he lets me know. It's a small house and he can be in any room in about a second. If someone tries to climb over the tall fence, he will be right there barking his head off and snapping his fangs. When he takes me for a walk, the homeless guys or young hoodlum guys cross to the other side of the street when they see him.

He makes my home much safer than another dozen loaded firearms would.

Since it is a gun forum, I think a lot of things get missed and of course, the gun is the solution to everything.

Reality is, security is a "package deal" and there's more to it than just your gun(s). Part of ours are two very protective 125# Rotties, and between them and the perimeter alarms, and a few other things, no one gets near the house, let alone in it, without us knowing someone is here.

Guns around the house are fine if it makes you happy and as long as you can realistically secure and access them. Even if you have one in every room, its still not the same as having it on you. That's the only way you're truly armed. A gun three feet away is doing you no good if you're struggling with someone at the door or on the floor and cant reach it.

 

[Targa]

Yep, I am one of the dumb ones, guns in every room. No kids, just me and my wife, very, very small circle of like minded friends that rarely come to the house. As for a break in? They can rummage through the house and grab hidden guns like an Easter egg hunt or the professional dirt bag can break into the safe within minutes and have everything waiting with a bow on it. Pick your poison I guess.

 

[hso]

professional dirt bag

Not many professional dirt bags in most places so the likelihood of that is low to vanishingly low depending upon the concentration of the professional dirt bags in the community. Still, so is the likelihood of a break in if you take precautions to make the neighbor's look like better targets than your place. THAT topic is one for Strategies & Tactics, though.

 

[King Medallion]

Yes. Yes I do. Except the kitchen.

 

[Pat Riot]

A while back my sister-in-law came into my gun room while I was reloading. She asked me how many guns I owned. I said “A few”.
She asked “Do you keep them all in your safe?” motioning towards my safe.
I said “Most of them.”
She asked “Do you hide guns so they’re easy to get to?”
I thought this was odd as she had never asked about this before and knowing my SIL I knew this was leading somewhere.
I stopped what I was doing and turned to face her.
I told her “Number one, and no offense meant, but it’s really none of your business how many and where I keep my guns.”
I thought this would anger her, but she was seemed fine with that response.
She said “I kind of figured you’d say that. I was just curious, that’s all.”
Then she changed the subject to handgun safes.
Long story short she was interested in getting a handgun safe for her house for after her last two foster kids leave.
She sure went about it in a weird way.

 

[JTHunter]

Guns don't shed, they don't have to be fed, watered, or sat, and people don't have allergies like they do with critters. Lotta folks can't have dogs.

And some people (like me) don't have dogs (anymore) because of their own mobility problems that makes it difficult to properly walk, train, and "play" with a dog, esp. a larger one.
After having had dogs for 30 years, I have been "dog-less" for 14 years. The first 8 or 9 as I still hadn't gotten over the loss of the last one in 2010 and couldn't afford another one at the time. Now, for the last 5-6 years, my reduced mobility is the major inhibiting factor.
Add to that, for most of those 5-6 years, I was dealing with an aging parent in a separate house so the dog would have been left alone for far too long a time each day, making it grossly unfair for the dog.

 

[357smallbore]

I carry two Glock 19s one with a 30 Rd mag
Have a Bowie knife in my boot, a razor in my hat band.
Get home and my Barrett is beside my chair, everything else is not open for discussion
Ok seriously. It's no one's business to what ya have in the way of guns carried and stashed in your home. Less is more

 

[aaaaa]

I don't leave them stashed. Too easy to find if someone breaks in while I'm gone.

I won't say I don't have a gun or two stashed around the house, but I do have one in every room or closet when I am in there because it is always in my pocket. Takes too long to fetch a stashed gun if someone is kicking in the front door.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Keep CCW on nightstand when sleeping.Biometric safe in closet downstairs if SHTF occurs 2 in there with extra mags.

 

[TarDevil]

Add to that, for most of those 5-6 years, I was dealing with an aging parent in a separate house so the dog would have been left alone for far too long a time each day, making it grossly unfair for the dog.

Good on you. Sometimes the the most loving thing you can do for a dog is leave them for those better suited.

Dogs are a phenomenal deterrent if circumstances permit. They are a hindrance otherwise.

Ours is nocturnal by nature and I often hear her patrolling the home at night. When something is amiss, only a fool would persist.

 

[hso]

I'm guessing you missed the part where I changed the subject?????

Guess you missed, "Nor would I respond to such a question from a guest."

 

[Rick McC.]

No.
I have more than one gun in every room…

 

[DT Guy]

The appropriate response to a question like that (or, as a neighbor once asked me, 'So you have a gun on you RIGHT NOW?!?!'), is to look just as shocked and distraught and ask, "You mean you DON'T?!?!"


Larry