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Keep'em loaded or not?
kyplumber
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A post by dcloco made me wonder..
Do most of you guys keep your guns loaded or unloaded?
I keep mine loaded with the saftey on.
[8D]
Do most of you guys keep your guns loaded or unloaded?
I keep mine loaded with the saftey on.
[8D]
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Both have loaded mags, no rounds in the chamber.
I keep a 32rd stick mag in my glock. If nothing else, it'll keep a bad guy's head down while I reload the .45 [:D]
My handguns I keep a full clip in without one in the chamber.
My Walther P99 9mm, and Kel Tec 380 are always loaded and chambered unless I am cleaning them, going to IDPA, or doing something else where unloading them would be a wise idea.
I never load my browning buckmark 22 pistol unless I am on the firing line at the range. I also keep my skeet shotgun unloaded unless I'm on a stage.
My mossberg 500 has a full tube, but empty chamber.
My Walther and Kel Tec are my "emergency guns". They are pretty easily accessible, but also cleverly hidden - where most bad guys won't find them.
My mossberg would be significantly slower getting into action, but if I hear a window smash at the opposite side of the house, I'd probably go for it (much more time than waking up to see a masked man standing at my bedroom doorway).
My other guns I don't really intend to use for defensive purposes, so I leave them unloaded. Well, I don't intend to use them unless a war like situation were to break out, then I'd load every gun I have...
A masked man standing at my bedroom doorway.
Who was that masked man?
....I dunno....maybe you can scrape enough DNA off the wall to identify him?[:D]
A post by dcloco made me wonder..
Do most of you guys keep your guns loaded or unloaded?
I keep mine loaded with the saftey on.
[8D]
All of them, other than the .22LR target pistol, are kept loaded and locked away except for the one I carry daily or the one kept near my bed at night.
I also keep a Remington 1100 next to the bed with 3 in the magazine but an empty chamber.
My biggest dilemma was how to store my truck gun. I didn't feel comfortable storing a loaded double action revolver or a loaded semi-auto with no safety in my truck. Yet my truck gun is the one I would most likely need in firing mode quickly. So I bought a semi-auto with a safety. It takes about a quarter of a second to click off the safety and have the gun ready to fire. However, someone unfamiliar with the gun might take 4 or 5 seconds to figure that out, just enough time for me to get it out of the hands of a child, or gain some distance from a bad guy.
-Wolf
Few of my guns have safties. I keep a Ruger GP-100 .357 Mag in the night stand. I leave the first cylinder empty, so it requires two trigger pulls to fire. Reason is, if somebody gets a hold of that revolver that isn't supposed to, that "click" of the hammer on an empty chamber after the first trigger pull may be enough time for me to get it out of their hands, or get the hell away. I figure if somebody is already on me so fast that I don't have time for two quick trigger pulls, then I am probably already f***ed. The point is that I KNOW the first cylinder is empty, but THEY DON'T!
I also keep a Remington 1100 next to the bed with 3 in the magazine but an empty chamber.
My biggest dilemma was how to store my truck gun. I didn't feel comfortable storing a loaded double action revolver or a loaded semi-auto with no safety in my truck. Yet my truck gun is the one I would most likely need in firing mode quickly. So I bought a semi-auto with a safety. It takes about a quarter of a second to click off the safety and have the gun ready to fire. However, someone unfamiliar with the gun might take 4 or 5 seconds to figure that out, just enough time for me to get it out of the hands of a child, or gain some distance from a bad guy.
-Wolf
You need to be careful when you change to Colt!....[8D]...they dont spin the same way![:0] found out the hard way.
Everything outside the safe is fully loaded including in the chamber. The bad guy won't hear a click or a slide work but see a big white light.
That may be true, but I like the factor that a crook is going to mess his pants when he hears the rack of a 12 gauge pump![:D]
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
Everything outside the safe is fully loaded including in the chamber. The bad guy won't hear a click or a slide work but see a big white light.
That may be true, but I like the factor that a crook is going to mess his pants when he hears the rack of a 12 gauge pump![:D]
I hear this all the time! do you really want to give your position away? racking the gun while someone is coming at you is wasting time IMO. My home defense guns are loaded and locked with hopes I may never need them.
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
Everything outside the safe is fully loaded including in the chamber. The bad guy won't hear a click or a slide work but see a big white light.
That may be true, but I like the factor that a crook is going to mess his pants when he hears the rack of a 12 gauge pump![:D]
I like the factor that the crook is going to Crap at the loud bang after I pull the trigger.
I get the dry heaves whenever I have to clean up crap.
--I have a split level home and gun shed, all firearms NOT in SAFES are loaded--
--[:o)][:o)]--JIMBO
40 caliber CZ - Loaded, 8 in the 10rd mag, 1 in the hole, decocked, spare 10 mag with 8rds.
Taurus PT111 - Loaded, 9 in the 12rd mag, 1 in chamber, Safety on, spare 12rd mag with 9rds.
All are in the bedroom. If we are outside the bedroom after 11pm or so, one comes with us into the room we are in.
Everything else is unloaded. They are either used for hunting, target shooting, or just plinking. No reason to be loaded. However, they are within easy access from the bedroom with plenty of ammo nearby.
At least that's what I did before I sold them ALL.[8D]
Man!you guys must live in a pretty rough part of town. Paranoia will destroy ya! Guns in safe unloaded, pumper in bedroom closet 12 ga with the tube full of .00 buck, just in case[;)]
I used to live in a very rough town, so habits carry over.
Now I live in the sticks where we really don't have any problems.
Man!you guys must live in a pretty rough part of town. Paranoia will destroy ya! Guns in safe unloaded, pumper in bedroom closet 12 ga with the tube full of .00 buck, just in case[;)]
You're right, we don't live in a great area.
We bought this house 3yrs ago on 1/3 the budget we have now. Been doing renovations and have a couple left to finish before we sell.
This summer a man was shot 1 block east of us. The ambulance found him in my alley. They never found the shooter. My neighbors called to have me check out their backyards and garages. I like 1 block south of a hard core biker bar and another tough bar. A man was nearly beaten to death this spring at one and someone was stabbed at the biker bar last year. A murder took place about 10blocks east of us last fall. The street we live on is not bad, but go one block north, east, or west and it gets worse. We're getting a place well out in the country when we move.
But there's no guns here, "gunns is bad".
Man!you guys must live in a pretty rough part of town. Paranoia will destroy ya! Guns in safe unloaded, pumper in bedroom closet 12 ga with the tube full of .00 buck, just in case[;)]
Paranoia doesn't destroy ya. I've been paranoid most of my adult life. Paranoia is my friend. If I wasn't paranoid, I wouldn't know how to act.