Why is it loaded? follow up to is it loadeded?.... follow up to do you have a gun in reach?

[Sharpienads]

Don't forget to urinate and/or defecate on yourself and those around you while verbally defending yourself.

[Guylee]

When I'm home, the Glock stays ready to go in the nightstand. Otherwise everything in the safe is kept unloaded and ammo is stored separately.

[RblDiver]

Nothing bad will ever happen to me. If someone broke into my house in the middle of the night, I keep a small megaphone in a holster next to my bed to accost them with verbal self defense measures from the top of the stairs.

Just have a speaker with an Obama speech loaded, ready to play. It'll put the intruder to sleep!

[Ronin13]

Why on earth would you need a gun in the house, loaded or not? Put 911 on speed dial! That's what cops are for, right?
Glock- mag in, no round in chamber- sitting in my desk drawer.
Mossberg- I recently changed this, 8 in the tube, empty chamber (the sound of a shotgun being racked has a significant psychological effect on would-be bad guys )
Sig- Locked, cocked, ready to rock all the time, and is never out of arms reach.
AR- Unloaded, stored, but 7 full mags in the same case ready to deploy if SHTF.

[CO303]

Anything within reach (read as; expected to be ready for use) in in condition 1.

[rondog]

Nothing bad will ever happen to me. If someone broke into my house in the middle of the night, I keep a small megaphone in a holster next to my bed to accost them with verbal abuse from the top of the stairs.

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Oh, and I keep an M1 Carbine next to the bed in Con 3, but those can be charged very quickly. I can probably charge that faster than a handgun, and I don't have a pump shotgun. It'll take me far longer to flip up the dust covers on the optic and turn it on than to charge it. And I pity whoever gets hit by the hollowpoints it's full of. Charging that carbine makes a pretty bodacious "racking" sound too.

[sellersm]

Another point of view: http://thinkinggunfighter.blogspot.c...ry-or-why.html


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[CroiDhubh]

Uh...because loading a round is more than just getting a round in the chamber. If I need to use it, the last thing I need is the complicated process of having that round enter the chamber correctly and add time to being able to defend myself...especially a hand gun. Plus, I've always been taught to fire from a draw and then add follow up shots in CQC. Loose use of one of your arms/hands? Why add an even more complicated process than just getting the round chambered correctly in your "OH SHIT!" situation?

[Clint45]

Personally, I am uncomfortable having any gun without an external hammer with one in the pipe . . . with the exception of a Centennial or an XD. A lot of guys leave pump or hammerless doubles with rounds chambered, relying entirely on the safety, but it seems risky, especially with kids or houseguests.

[Tinelement]

All if mine are loaded and chambered.

Well, minus my 2 hunting firearms.