How do you keep you AR pattern rifles at home? For me, it is my defensive carbine. I have the current luxury of not having kids, and as such keeping my pistol/carbine readily accessible. My handgun has no manual safety, always has a round in the chamber, always in a holster--whether on my belt or my nightstand. The before mentioned condition for my pistol gives me a warm fuzzy feeling of being safe to me and others, and yet readily accessible/reliable should i ever need to use it for it's intended purposes.
I keep my AR with a seated loaded magazine, and safety off. Leaving me with charging the charging handle to get it into action. That does not give me the cozy feeling of reliability--there is a chance that a round will not be chambered if the magazine is not quite seated fully. I was wondering how the rest of the world deals with this issue: giving an extra strong tap on the magazine before charging the charging handle or just keeping it with a round in the chamber, and on manual safe.