I have a Joe Biden Special. It's a double barrel 12 Ga coach gun, chambers empty, with some double OO buck in an elastic butt cuff. I'd thought about loading it with blanks for the 2 blasts in the air.
I also have a Glock 17, Ameriglo night sights, TLR-1 light on the rail and CT laser grips. Gun is empty with a couple loaded mags with it in the night stand drawer.
I keep my guns a couple motions from usable in case I'm coming out of a deep sleep.
Ummm, they will already know where you are unless you’re a movie ninja with night vision and no squeaks at all in your floor.
You don’t have to point you’re gun at someone with a weaponlight if it’s more than 2 candela. I’ve cleared a lot of houses and buildings, you can see plenty with the spill at low ready if you have a decent WML.
This thread has sent me looking for a Surefire 310R, because I stared at this picture a lot:
For me this is a developing thing.
Right now I’m splitting time between living alone at work in an RV and living at home very far away with my family.
Situation 1 is RV living. It’s a gated community with armed security. If you know me and my situation you understand the truth and humor behind that statement. I have so many damn guns and lights and a damn helmet with a PVS-14 sitting next to the plate carrier that’s across from the M4 and pistol with passive optic and IR Illuminator/Laser that if a bad guy gets on property and past things in place and then gets into my place without me knowing... they beat the game... good for them.
If the poop really hit the fan right now I’d grab my Staccato P because that’s my current carry/HD gun. It’s stupid reliable and stupider accurate. HD gets a Surefire X300 Turbo though when out and about I don’t carry the light because a) I don’t have a holster.. and b) It seems like it would suck. I always have a hand-held which for the past couple years has been a Surefire Stiletto.
In the more reality of situation 2, I’m with my family. I’d like to think I’m in an overall better area of living. The things here will be there eventually because I have them, but right now I have a Glock 45 with an ACRO and TLR-7A. When I go out there next month I’ll be bringing an extra bigger gun along with a few carry guns of the 1911 and 2011 flavor. Maybe one or two others as well. Based on what I’m planning to bring the other guns will be for carry, but the G45 will be the dedicated home defense gun in a quick access safe in our bedroom. In the near future (while the young kids are still young) I’ll still have my carry gun accessible in a high shelf in the closet. That will probably be the Staccato C/EPS Carry, but maybe even an iron sight 1911 depending on my mood.
I’m in the “carry gun on nightstand” crowd. For me that’s a 9mm Commander, loaded in its JMCK holster just like when I was carrying it earlier in the day. The Surefire EDCL-1T I carry is there as well.
My spare carry mags are nearby, as is an 870 with five rounds of Flite Control in the tube and five in a side saddle. Med gear, a spare flashlight, and more ammo (as if I’d ever need it) are also nearby in a little Patagonia satchel (basically the size of a fanny pack but it goes across your chest). The 870 can be subbed out for an AR if for some reason that seems prudent.
It’s an arrangement I’m pretty happy with so far.
I've been engaging in a slow and entertaining evolution of nightstand guns. For years it was an HK P30 I modified with the 4.1 LEM, then I putted along with a striker-fired VP9, now I'm doing the Česká zbrojovka TDA finger exercises with my new CZ P01. The CZ has a different aesthetic than the more tactical looking HKs
The standard OEM CZ double-action is also comfortable to carry in my JM Custom 2.5 AIWB holster that I use almost every day. Striker fired pistols make me nervous to point at my family jewels
The Lok grips are thin dark red/black full-checkered, Meprolight hyper bright night-sights, loaded with 147gr HST in 10 round mags to appease the Governor
The background is a T shirt with an image of van Gogh's "Mulberry Tree, 1889"
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“Safety is nice, but it’s not first. Life is first and it’s not safe.”— Jeff Cooper
Mine is my carry G26 in lockbox in closet (kids).
I sold my G19 years ago bc I never carried it. Now that the finger grooves are gone i've seriously been thinking about a G19 or G45 MOS to have a pistol with dot. I have so many G19 mags, a G19 just makes more sense... even if the G45 feels better.
Same 365XL that I just switched to carrying with. Previously a G26. I shoot it a lot and I'm capped at 10 rounds anyway.
Familiarity trumps performance in all reasonable comparisons.
You already have the tools necessary. House glass is not as tough as auto glass, and any bedroom should have plenty of blankets, sheets, and spare clothes available to pad the bottom of the frame, and to wrap around your arm to clear glass. If I was going to make sure I had anything in the bedroom for fire preparedness, it would be a pair of shoes, a cell phone, and a winter coat.
Some stuff:
*Panic injures more people than anything else. I am frankly shocked at just how shitty the average person is at making decisions in even non-life-threatening emergencies.
*EVERY serious injury I have ever seen in a residential structure fire has been from people attempting to fight the fire. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
*The hidden danger of any fire exposure is inhaling hot air. I've had a couple people now with relatively minor exterior burns die shortly thereafter because they inhaled hot air from the fire. The most common mechanism was falling into a campfire, one was the aforementioned woman attempting to fight a fire.
If you're concerned about fire, make sure your detectors work. Dial 911 and evacuate at the first sign of trouble.