Where do you keep your bedside home defense weapon?

[Sour Kraut]

When you retire for the evening, where do you keep you first choice home defense weapon(s)?

 

[NOLAEMT]

in my bedside table, top drawer.

 

[shiftyer1]

I keep mine next to the bed, kinda thought thats what bedside meant. For me thats in a nightstand drawer. I would set it on top but I spent a fair amount of time grabbing tums in the middle of the night. I wouldn't want to grab the gun in my sleep and shake out pills by mistake.

 

[ZeSpectre]

I have a small safe (very similar to this one) that is bolted to my bedframe underneath.

When I go to bed I unlock and open the safe (which also contains electronic muffs, a good flashlight, a "clip on" holster and spare mags). When I get up and get ready to leave the room for the day the safe gets closed and locked.

At least as important as this, is that my wife and I have an action plan. If anything happens to "alert" us my job is to secure the room, her job is to be on the phone to 911 and get the Calvary on the way.

 

[snake eater 332]

I have my duty 9mm Sig P226R with Insight M6 light/laser unit, .40 Glock 27, 2" .357 Ruger SP101, and .38 Taurus M85 snubby in my GunVault directly below my nightstand.

I also have a SureFire 6P LED flashlight on top of my nightstand. A light source is a MUST in a home defense situation.

I also have several folding knives, 2 pair of handcuffs, brass knuckles and a balisong/butterfly knife (both confiscated from teens over the years), and a canister of OC/pepper spray in a top drawer of my dresser only a step away. My old straight nightstick (we went to collapsible baton a while back) is also leaning against the wall right behind the bedroom door.

I also have my 14" 12 ga Mossberg 590A1 SBS with SureFire weaponlight in the closet closest to my side of the bed, which is also closest to the bedroom door.

Everything else is in the gun safe in the basement.

 

[M2 Carbine]

A Beretta PX4 9mm and a CZ 40P are on the nightstand.
A .223 Bushmaster is leaning by the nightstand.
All are equipped with Streamlight TLR-2 laser/lights.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Isn't the answer kind of implicit with the question?

 

[Sour Kraut]

"Isn't the answer kind of implicit with the question?"

Not really..... I was looking for specifics, and most people offered up their examples.

And in keeping with the request I'll share my info: I keep my XD 45 with light attached to a magnet on the bed frame.

What about you MachIV?

 

[WardenWolf]

On the table next to my bed in its IWB holster.

 

[Michael R.]

i keep my browning buckmark on my right in a drawer and my ruger p95 on the other side drawer.

 

[CTPhil]

In a holster clipped to the bed frame rail.

 

[Jonah71]

About 2 ft. to my right on the bed. Another on the night stand on the left.

 

[ball3006]

I don't have any weapons for home defense. I do have a few guns stashed around the house that may be used as a weapon if the situation arises.......chris3

 

[ForumSurfer]

in my bedside table, top drawer.

This, or sometimes just on top of the nightstand. It is my daily carry pistol, so it leaves with me in the morning and returns before bed.

 

[MachIVshooter]

What about you MachIV?

There's a holster mounted to the underside of the nightstand. Usually something on top, too.

Shotgun and/or rifle tend to take residence in corners, closets, under the bed. At present there are 4 shotguns, 2 AR's, a .22 rifle and 8 handguns in the bedroom(not counting wall hangers).

And no, the bedroom is not my primary gun storage area.

 

[Wapato]

I've got a gun safe under the bed for my .357 mag and 45 long revolvers.

Though unlike the rest of you I keep it locked. I've got a couple of very young daughters, and a wife that...well at least she's honest about being a bit unstable when in one of her depressed moments which happens as a mom.

Between work and the daughters I'm often more than a little sleep deprived , I've once found myself having gone through my morning routine on autopilot only to wind up with my tie threaded through my belt loops.

So I imagine the odds of me forgetting to lock the thing in the morning are higher than the odds those 2 extra seconds will be decisive.

 

[JSpear]

I live alone, so it's on my nightstand.

 

[Purgatory]

On the table next to my bed in its IWB holster.

^^This.^^

Although I am very interested in a small bedside gunsafe with buttons that light when you press them. The finger keys appear to be the most handy.

I have also had a holster mounted to the side of the bed in the past. As long as you're near that side of the bed and lying on your back, that works well.

 

[Plan2Live]

Close enough, closer than most.

 

[HDCamel]

Drawer under the bed.

 

[Bobson]

Before I sold my XD, I kept it on the bottom platform of the nightstand at night, next to the little 5-digit combination handgun safe I kept it in during the day. Now I'm looking at a way to get my Mossberg 500 down from my parents' house in Washington without going through an FFL, but I'll keep that propped in the corner.

 

[FAS1]

G17 w/night sights is always here.

http://youtu.be/CcJUGuB35y8

 

[eddielewis]

Before I sold my XD, I kept it on the bottom platform of the nightstand at night, next to the little 5-digit combination handgun safe I kept it in during the day. Now I'm looking at a way to get my Mossberg 500 down from my parents' house in Washington without going through an FFL, but I'll keep that propped in the corner.

I would not think that you would have to use an ffl to transport your gun across state lines.

 

[Bobson]

I would not think that you would have to use an ffl to transport your gun across state lines.

I meant to ship it. I just assumed I would need to go through an FFL.

 

[armoredman]

Where do you keep your bedside home defense weapon?

Within reach.