Sleeping Safe

[nfl1990]

How many of you sleep with a knife/pistol under the pillow, and what if so, and when you started, (age, or an event that convinced you it was nessasary)

 

[dpesec]

I have my protection in the bookcase build in to the headboard.

 

[tc300mag1]

Nothing The gun is on bedside table

 

[orionengnr]

ah, the "nothing" selection should have been "other"

so I could say a rubber, "just in case"

sorry, couldn't resist... you did say, "safe"

 

[f4t9r]

Nothing under the pillow
just move around to much no telling where gun might end up

 

[SpookyPistolero]

Autoloader under my pillow since I was ten. 1911 at the moment.

 

[JamisJockey]

You forgot 12ga Winchester 1300 22" Barell, rifle sights, slugs and buck.

 

[orangeninja]

Just a Sig 228 in a night stand next to a Glock 30 for companionship.

 

[Mannlicher]

sleeping with 'something' under the pillow is hardly prudent. Tucked between the mattress and box springs maybe, but not under the pillow. Way too many chances of an AD ( or AC: accidental cutting ).

 

[RyanM]

My head is usually under the pillow if I'm sleeping on my back. That's the real weapon, though. Everything else is just a tool.

If sleeping on my side, my arm is under the pillow. So keeping something else under there isn't a very good idea.

 

[Sam]

Pistiol is too lumpy these days so it sits on the headboard.
When I was real young like 3, I slept with a SA Colt under my pillow to shoot stray boogermen but I outgrew it.

Sam

 

[Alex45ACP]

2 pistols on the nightstand, 1 shotgun under the bed. And an AK clone in the closet, just in case things get really hairy

 

[Hardtarget]

I don't keep a weapon under my pillow...but next to me is a wife that can hear the cat burp in the middle of the night. The .45 and the 12 ga. are both close...good to go.
Mark.

 

[HighVelocity]

Nothing The gun is on bedside table

Ditto. I toss and turn too much and anything under my pillow would end up on the floor anyway.

 

[clt46910]

I have slept with a gun under my pillow for over thirty five years. Started when I was about 22. Back then I slept with it in my hand under my pillow. Now it is just under the pillow and if I wake up I will check to make sure it is still there. Old habits die hard. Mostly has been a revolver all these years, either a .38 or .357

Reason...quess some people just did not like me very much. Maybe I had a poor sense of humor. Started after someone shot up my house one night. Before that it was in the drawer of the nightstand. After that in my hand under the pillow.

 

[TallPine]

I keep a bed under my pillow

 

[silverlance]

i've fallen aslep

holding a gun before. bad times.

whats interesting is that i woke up with my trigger finger in exactly the right position above the guard. i guess a little part of my brain devoted itself to being safe. heh.

 

[LadySmith]

I sleep with a .357 revolver under the pillow. It started when I first left home some decades ago & learned that parts of the world are not really nice places. Never had an AD. Like Silverlance, I can fall asleep & wake up with a straight finger outside the guard. If I hadn't developed this habit, I'd be dead. For me, it would be imprudent to be without a ready means of effective defense at a time of extreme vulnerability.

 

[R.H. Lee]

If I lived where I thought I needed a weapon under my pillow because the threat of violent attack was so imminent, I'd move. Or at least think about better perimeter defenses. Sumpthin'.

 

[beerslurpy]

An autoloading rifle.

 

[ZenMasterJG]

Yep, shotgun next to the bed. 00 Buck.

 

[Biker]

Nothing under the pillow, but plenty within reach.
Biker

 

[foghornl]

Nothing under the pillow, but several things close by. Reason: used to keep the .44Mag Super Blackhawk under the pillow. One morning, after a particularly 'restless' night, I moved the pillow to make the bed, and there was my Super Blackhawk...COCKED

 

[hso]

Terribly bad idea when there are so many better places/ways to secure a weapon at the ready.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Nothing under the pillow, no need to take the risks as far as I can see. My carry pistol and a flashlight are on the floor under the bed on my side and an 870 is behind the bedroom door. My wife has the nightstand on her side, her carry pistol and a flashlight are there. And there's a hundred pounds plus of Brazilian mastiff snoring at the foot of the bed and a hyper Brittany spaniel in the living room. The whole place is fenced and gated, the fences are electric and the gates are locked.

No need for anything under the pillow...

lpl (sleeping soundly in very rural NC)