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NEVER. I wouldn't recommend keeping a loaded firearm next to your head when you're unconcious or semi concious, you could end up having the worst nightmare of your life.
 
NEVER. I wouldn't recommend keeping a loaded firearm next to your head when you're unconcious or semi concious, you could end up having the worst nightmare of your life.
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Agreed

.....but I do keep one laying on the nightstand next to the bed (I'm a very light sleeper and no one else lives in the house).
 
Back in the 80's a, um, gentleman in Chicago did. Awakened by what he thought was someone climbing into his bedroom window, he grabbed the gun, pointed it toward the window- and blew off a substantial part of his manhood. Reported then by the late, lamented columnist Mike Royko. Either that guy needed to be more careful when discharging his weapon, or should have seeked a professional to perform his circumcision!:eek:

Chuck
 
Not even Jack Bauer sleeps with a gun under his pillow...

Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun. :D

Okay, I apologize for that (I don't even watch 24, but I heard it once and thought it was funny). Seriously though, this is a bad idea. I keep a .45 in the night stand though.

Jason
 
When I first moved into my own place, and usually I would sleep with my pistol in front of my alarm clock so the glow from the clock would reflect off of the gun and would leave my gun under my pillow before I left. I have since figured out that was a bad idea.
 
I do, but not under the pillow my head is on and only a DA revolver (I sleep in a queen size bed by myself).
 
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night stand brother, Sig P220. And small safe in bedroom which I open at night for access to loaded 12 Ga. Dog on the floor. However I must say that if the "intruder" brought a coney with him the dog would sell out!
 
I used to do this, the gun would be in condition three. I started using the night stand when I got one on my side of the bed
 
Okay, I'll play the Devil's Protégé just for the sake of discussion. Is sleeping on a firearm akin to carrying a 1911 cocked and locked? Has anyone ever knocked items off their nightstand in the night? Would a perp not hear that? And if startled awake and having knocked a firearm off the nightstand, could it be recovered quickly. (I imagine those with SIGLITE Night Sights could.)

I knew two guys that kept their piece under their pillow. (One of them had been burglarized 2 previous times. He slept with a S&W 41 magnum under his pillow after the 2nd burglary and was ready and waiting for the 3rd burglary, but that's another story.) Both (they did not know each other) said the same thing: "I can pull the hammer back or snick off the safety without being heard." I realize that some people are thrashers when they sleep. I'd be interested in hearing some other reasons why a firearm shouldn't be kept under the pillow.
 
No way in hell I would ever even consider it. I won't have a weapon within reach if I'm drinking or otherwise impaired. I consider asleep, or even half asleep, and ESPECIALLY half-awake to be "impaired".

Locked in a quick-access gun safe in the nightstand, thanks. By the time I can get to it I'm fully awake, and chances are the bad guy is already a block away after the very noisy dog starts going nuts.
 
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