Loaded in your gun safe?

None loaded in the safe. Carry weapon is always nearby or out the door with me. Reason not to leave the guns in the safe loaded -- a person (and their spouse) might not come back home (ever), I don't want either family members or anyone else having to handle loaded guns while trying to 'clean out the place'.
 
I keep my XD loaded in the safe, but without one in the chamber. But, my safe is the size of a shoebox and lies right next to my bed with only a series of 4 buttons to open it. So i get the best of both worlds, quick and easy to access and safe storage.
 
I keep all my 1911’s loaded with one in the pipe while stored in my safe. My AR has a full 30 round magazine inserted but not chambered. If I am ever disarmed and forced to open my safe, I at least want a fighting chance to re-arm myself.
 
I don't have kids at home. Loaded gun in the safe isn't practical to me. I keep one loaded auto in a drawer next the bed. My father always had a loaded revolver in his dresser from the time I was a kid.
I was taught that their room was OFF LIMITS. I never went in their bedroom unless they were in there.
 
A loaded gun in a safe won't keep you safe, if you live in a neighborhhood where you feel you may need to go to the safe for a loaded gun after you have exhausted your other guns or options, its time to MOVE! The question needs more detail as to why you would want to keep loaded guns in a safe?
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Sevens pretty handled it for me. My primaries are not the same every day. As it stands now I have four that I regularly carry, though not all at once. Those that are not on my person, I refuse to unload and therefore don't worry as much about bullet setback and such. My carry weapons are generally unloaded only at the range targets, or at the gun show where it is mandated. Loaded guns in my safe are not going to hurt anybody by themselves, and I am the only one that goes in the safe. The "time to move" comment is so rigid it's ridiculous, and has been bandied about in a number of topics, so I won't address it again here.
 
Two shotguns (Winchester 1200, Remington 1100) magazines loaded, nothing in the chamber and my G23 ready to throw some lead (copper covered variety of course- it is a GLOCK afterall). Everything else is empty.
 
I dont keep anything loaded in my safe. I keep my 9mm glock on hand in its black plastic foam case in my bedroom, with 1 magazine loaded and the other not. but the guns not loaded still gotta throw the magazine in and pull back the slide. I figure I dont need both magazines loaded one ten shot clip shall be just fine for hd.
 
One in the gunvault is ready to fire. Two in the other small safe downstairs are ready to fire but are in holsters. None of the .22s or long guns are loaded.
 
Yeah, I don't understand the NEVER EVER responses either...

I have 4 handguns that I use regularly for carry weapons (1911, SIG P229, S&W 642, Kel-Tec P3AT). I am not a big fan of loading and unloading guns on a regular basis. So, since each of these weapons gets carried at least once per week, they all stay loaded. Also, my gun safe is unlocked when I am at home, and it is right next to my bed. So, I keep my shotgun loaded in there too just in case I decide to grab it instead of my SIG (with night sights) in a bump-in-the-night scenario.

I have never heard anyone (this thread is the first) say that it is taboo to keep loaded guns in a safe. A loaded gun is just as likely to fire as an unloaded gun while sitting dormant in a safe.

(got me baffled)
 
One thing that scares the beejesus out of me are firearms placed around the house that aren't secured. The very idea that someone might enter my home unarmed or with a club, only to ransack the house and come up with a handgun that I left in some "hidden" spot is just plain scary.

If I hear something downstairs at 3 am while I'm upstairs, I'm going to assume any intruder is armed. But unless the guy has blown the door off my safe, I'm also going to be quite sure that he's not armed with one of my handguns.
 
Sevens,

That is exactly why I bought a safe in the first place.

I didn't buy it because I have kids, or because I don't want my expensive firearms stolen (I'm referring to the loss of their monetary value here). Even though these are good reasons to get a safe, my primary reason for purchasing one was because I don't want to come home after a nice dinner with my family only to be staring down the barrel of my OWN Remington 870 12ga in the hands of an intruder.

Whether or not they are loaded or unloaded while inside a locked gun vault, to which only I know the combination, makes little to no difference to me.
 
It's actually illegal in Canada

I believe it is illegal here in the Great White North to store a loaded weapon (handgun, rifle, shotgun... slingshot, whatever) in your house/garage, even in a safe. You can have a fully loaded mag sitting right beside the aforementioned weapon in the safe, but not IN the weapon itself.

Additionally, mine is trigger locked in the safe as well. Call me paranoid (or better yet, call my wife paranoid :D).

I'm thinking that by the time I get my gun out of the safe, the intruders will have already intruded, and I'd be in serious trouble anyway.

Cheers!
McClintock
 
I keep all revolvers loaded, 2 1911 mags loaded + 1 in the gun and 2 loaded mini-14 mags. I think that it is best to be prepared.
 
Nope. If I'm not ready to fire, it isn't loaded. If you want to carry a loaded gun, that's fine. Leaving one lying around--even in the safe--doesn't appeal to me. Even when I was in Afghanistan, we didn't keep everything loaded all the time. Outside the wire? Yep, always got one in the pipe. In the chow hall or in my "room"? Nope. Mag in the mag well, but nothing in the pipe. If the baddies decided to rush the wall, we would have had time to chamber a round (and put armor on, get NVGs, wait for plan of action from PL and SL). Only happened twice, and both times the baddies were persuaded to leave by a pair of A-10's flying over to say hello.

If the zombies come for you, you'll probably have time to slap a mag in and chamber a round. Well, as long as they are slow zombies like in Shaun of the Dead. If they are fast zombies like in 28 Days Later, well, maybe you do need a mag loaded.....
 
I'm thinking that by the time I get my gun out of the safe, the intruders will have already intruded, and I'd be in serious trouble anyway.
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Yup. Stupid laws! You guys need to work to get those changed.
 
I don't keep anything loaded in my main safes.

I do have a quick access safe in my bedroom for my carry guns to be stored in though. I never used to leave guns loaded or chambered in them, but these days I do. Whatever gun I am carrying just comes off my belt, out of the holster, and right into the safe. Next day I open the safe, pull the slide back a bit to check the chamber (or open the cylinder) reholster and put it on my belt.

I got tired of always loading and unloading it. Atleast they are locked up and theres no-one else to get into it anyway.
 
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