Sleeping Safe

[Geno]

Fobus holster attached to the "rope handles" of the matress side

Always something close-at-hand! Under pressure there is no assurance that (1) I would remember the safe's combination, or 2) that I would have time to get to the safe.

Doc2005

 

[Nick_90]

For over two years, I slept with my S&W 686 under my pillow but having thought it over (and read certain threads on THR about the dangers of doing this), I now keep it on my bedside table. I also have a Mossberg 590 under the bed if things really go wrong and a Beretta CX 90 leaning behind the curtains...

 

[benEzra]

Dude, we have a waterbed. There's no freakin' way a blade is going under my pillow...or else my wife and I might find ourselves treading water in our sleep...

Do have a quick-access lockbox on the headboard, though... (9mm usually lives there at night).

 

[Too Many Choices!?]

I took,"under the pillow", to mean in the bed with, YMMV

I usually just sleep with my Glock in a Fobus holster(15+1), and and my 10 1/2" AR-15pistol(PDW 28+1soft points), both along the side of me in bed, pointing away from me, and towards the door...I toss and turn, but have yet to wake up with either weapon on the floor...Hanging on the wall, positioned on a tactical nail, is my M4 with tactical light and red-dot(28+1 of fmj), against the back wall in a corner is the WASR 10(2-30 rounders close), as my fall back weapon...

I went to walk outside at night to take a smoke break, and I saw a shadow(either large dog, medium javelina/boar, or a puma!!), and it stopped looked at me for a second, then growled and ran off into the woods...I ran inside and got my M4(since pigs is nuisances I coulda shot it), but it was gone. The next day my M4 and AR pistol got a Scorpion LED light for just such occurences..

I posted the story of the idiot teens that tried following me home just because I wouldn't buy them cigarettes . I got flipped off and cussed at, but had my Glock 23 in .40 and was aware not to escelate the situation, if I had not been armed I might have kicked that guys ass though... After the occurence of being followed home, I made soft point ammo the choice pick for my PDW..

Before I was old enough to carry, me and some friends got,'Jumped", at the annual Fair , for wearing the rong colors, in the wrong part of town...I got my car's window broken with a beer bottle and some of my friends got beat up, if I had had a firearm at the time their would have been a lot of deceased or bleeding scum bags that night...30-4, odds is a fight you never forget, and will alway be prepared for in the future....TMC

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

Nothing under the pillow(visions of getting shot in the head coming up here)---now if I reach my arm over---there's a 870P ----full mag--hammer down on an empty chamber---just sittin there---patiently waiting.

 

[Nitram68]

night stand and under the bed... auto, knife, flashlight, extinguisher, evac-u8 and a baseball bat.

 

[Meta4]

I keep my carry weapon (XD .40 4") on the night stand next to my bed. I toss and turn like crazy, so I'd have to search for my weapon every time if I left it under my pillow.

-James

 

[LaVere]

I can't roll on but I can reach it.

The Head Board​

 

[torpid]

I have no sissy pillow, I use the gun instead, as the Man Upstairs intended.

(You'll know me by the backward serial number on my forehead.)

 

[depicts]

Under the pilllow?

Only a few times I kept the gun under the pillow. Once in a skivvy house in Vietnam where I spent the night in an off limits town, maybe another time or two sleeping on a sandbag on guard duty or on the ground.

Now at home I keep a Browning Hi Power right next to my bed with my glasses, teeth and hearing aids...and the backup .357.

 

[Sistema1927]

I voted "nothing", but that is because my semi-auto spends the night on the bedside nightstand.

 

[NHBB]

642 or G30 within ergonomic reach right under the bed, as well as a semi auto saiga 12g a bit deeper if I really need it...

 

[TamThompson]

Nightstand

Nothing under the pillow--I move around too much.
Glock 30 on nightstand, AR-15 under my side of the bed, 12-gauge under husband's side.

 

[Didorian]

OK, Now THIS is a post I can get into... LMAO Now keep in mind, for this my GF and I sleep on a futon matress on the floor.
I do sleep with a knife under my pillow. A Cold Steel SRK. About three inches to the right of that is my Springfield XD-40(The semiauto) Under the XD is my Ontario, Spec Ops Bowie. And just to the right of that is my cheap, but sharp wakizashi. And than leaning against the wall above me is my nice kitana(Read as, the three foot razor blade ) Then on the shelf beside it, along with my radio are my Airforce survival knife and my Ka-Bar. I just like to have them near me. And I started sleeping with a knife under my pillow at about the 11th grade...... can't remember why though Probably because, like I said, I just like having them around
My GF on the other side has her pocket knife and HER Ka-Bar beside her.... She started sleeping with a blade nearby shortly after she began dating me

Oh yea.... I forgot to mention that I've been sleeping with my pocket knife in the waist band of my sleeping shorts since I was in highschool.

 

[PrimalScream]

I dont keep it under my pillow but it is very close at hand, 1911, revolver and knife...paranoid? Prehaps, but it keeps me warm at night...okay maybe not the olny thing that keeps me warm, but...

 

[Ryder]

I've been keeping a pistol under the pillow for 30+ years since I was old enough to legally own one. I suppose it would come in handy if I ever needed it in a hurry but I don't expect to have to defend myself that way. I see it as more of a handy way to prevent unauthorized access while I am sleeping. Somebody would probably have to wake me up to get the gun. The majority of my firearms are locked up to prevent unauthorized access but I won't lock up ALL my guns at one time.

 

[1911 guy]

Nothing, now

Haven't slept with anything under the pillow for a few years. My wife broke me of that. For a long time after I got out of the service, though, I kept a 1911 under the pillow. Full mag, empty pipe.

 

[losangeles]

Nothing. I used to have something nearby, in a nightstand. But that's when I lived in a city next to Compton and South Central LA. Now, I've been living in a city with zero homicides each year and near-zero crime annually. I live here, work here, my family mostly does its activities in this environment, so there's hardly need for any precautions.

 

[AStone]

Dog on the table

I'm with 70%+ others: nothing "under" the pillow for all the reasons stated above.

But just arms length away on the table is a Kahr K9, oriented in a position such that my left hand will find the handle in an ergonomic hold from a deep sleep on my right side, where most of my sleeping occurs. I fondle that metal dog several times per night just to make sure I have muscle memory of where it is.

Mr. Dog is soon to be joined by an 870P with #1 buck.

Why an arms length away? That's the position I'd shoot it at an intruder anyway (light sleeper, will hear the bedroom door open; live alone, so no one coming in is supposed to be here), so why bother trying to reach under the pillow to find the gun then extend arm holding it. Just reach out, grab it, and ... I'm ready to shoot if I need to.

 

[Podster]

This thread brings to mind a guy we used to know who lived by the Colt SAA, slept with it under his pillow. He apparently had a terrific dream ~ woke up to the smell of gunpowder and found the 45 colt empty with a nice group in the bedroom wall. Stayed awake for the rest of the night waiting for sirens.

We're not paraniod, we have GUNS!

 

[Zach S]

I keep my arm under the pillow, with a knife, 2 handguns, and a scattergun within reach.

just move around to much no telling where gun might end up

+1.

 

[ArgentineSteel]

I have to go with the nothing under the pillow, but I keep the carry piece on the nightstand where I can find it in the dark. If you don't feel safe enough with the weapon within reach, but not in hand then get a yapping dog that will warn you of any intruders, or better yet a big quiet one with sharp teeth and listen for the screams of any intruder.

 

[TMM]

2 butcher knives under the pillow, 1 clipped to my pajamas.

simply because they're the only two knives that are simaler in length, shape, etc. and they're big. i don't have 2 for the purpose of 1 in each hand, but one for when i'm lying on my right side, and one for my left. knife on my pajamas as a backup, i guess.

~TMM

 

[Biker]

2 butcher knives under the pillow, 1 clipped to my pajamas.

simply because they're the only two knives that are simaler in length, shape, etc. and they're big. i don't have 2 for the purpose of 1 in each hand, but one for when i'm lying on my right side, and one for my left. knife on my pajamas as a backup, i guess.

~TMM

You're joking. Please tell me you're joking.
Biker

 

[TMM]

i should mention the one i carry on my person is a folding knife (benchmade 551), not a butcher knife. i assume that's what you meant...