packing while at home

Carrying at home

I look at the issue like this. Why have a firearm at home if it is not readily available? Especially if you carry because of personal protection. Most of the time a conflict arrises will be in the safety of your own home. I wouldn't want to spend the extra time to have to go fid my handgun, possibly unlock a safe, take the slide lock off, insert a clip, chamber a round and fire. I would just want to draw and fire the hell out of my .45..

DC;)
 
Sometimes, yet as others have mentioned, there's something handy if not.
I spend much time in the garage, I carry there.
 
For what it's worth. My .38 is always loaded on the nightstand ( unless I'm carrying it). Most days my .22 mag. derringer is in my pocket until I undress for bed. It is right now as a matter of fact.
 
If you mean in a holster or pocket, not usually. But when I'm home, I always have a gun nearby, usually my nightstand gun which I take with me around the house. It's on the desk in my home office now as I type this; in a few minutes I'll be in the living room reading and it will be on the end table. It's not a big deal, and I'll be happy to have it handy in the unlikely event somebody decides to come in and help himself to some of my stuff.
 
This is an interesting topic for me. I generally keep my guns locked up in the safe and never carry at home. However, just a few nights ago something strange happened. My wife and I were watching TV in the family room, which is in the back of the house. It was after 11pm. We had all the lights off in the house. As I walked into the kitchen to get something to drink, I heard a car door slam right outside. I thought someone may have pulled into our driveway and immediately became curious ... kind of late for a social call. So I went to the front room and snapped on the porch light to take a look. The car had parked on the street right in front of our house, and as soon as the light went on, it peeled off quickly down the street ... so quickly that I didn't even get a good look at it. As I peeked out from the blinds, it went up the street, did a U-turn and then slowly cruised by the front of our house. As I watched, it turned down another street, turned around in a neighbor's driveway and then parked on the side street on the corner, so that it was facing my house again, close enough to hit with a thrown rock if I was standing on my front porch. Now I started to get suspicious, so I went to the safe and stuffed a loaded pistol in one pocket, a spare mag in the other, and grabbed my field glasses to have a look. Due to the low light, I couldn't see their plates or get a make on the car. I did see there were 2 in the car, and a moving blue light, probably from a cell phone that they passed to one another. After a few minutes, the driver suddenly turned on the headlights and began snapping on and off the hi beams. I thought that was strange to say the least. After about 10 minutes, the car pulled out and drove slowly past the front of my house again and disappeared.

I went back to the family room at this point and told my wife what had happened. She agreed that it was suspicious as hell and even suggested I call the police. They may have been casing our house for a late night burglary. I showed her that I was armed, and was surprised to find that she approved. Normally she'd raise hell if I was walking around the house with a gun. I closed all the blinds and drapes on the windows and spent the next hour or so keeping a look out and turning on and off lights in the house.

Since then, I've been keeping a pistol or revolver at my side or in my pocket once night falls, and sometimes even during the day (I'm currently unemployed and stay around the house all day). I'm sure it was probably a false alarm, just a couple of kids who couldn't find the right house, but who's to say?

Now I'm starting to wonder if keeping my guns locked in the safe all the time is really safe.
 
I have 5 dogs who let me know when someone is outside so I feel I have plenty of time to arm myself if need be.
 
Paranoid means your not holding just the gun mother nature gave you when the bad guy meets you in the hallway.

At home,definitely.
 
One of my goals in life was to live in an environment where it wasn't essential that I carry inside the home. I have achieved that. But I didn't start out that way.

Nonetheless, I do have a firearm readily available but out of plain sight (within a few walking steps, maximum, on each floor). At the moment, there is one 16" from my knee. At night, there is another one even closer.
 
Carry at Home?

I don't carry at home, but I do have firearms on the main two levels. Just in case. I do have kids, but my kids have healthy respect for firearms

However, I do find that it's great to have the CCW when going back and forth to the range. I don't like taking my gear off until I am at home. If I want to buy a milk at the grocery store on the way home, I don't want to sweat it.
 
Then you live in a high crime area.
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Oh? So where do you draw the line? Two miles, five? I'm going by the police calls and crime statistics for my city which are published for all the captains of the neighborhood watches. We are not even remotely close to the city of Detroit in that regard, though we border it geographically.
 
I used to do like others have said and carry until I change if I strapped it on early in the day to go out. Since I got the LCP it is just so easy and almost not even noticeable to keep it in the pocket all the time.
 
Most of the time. I live in a very rural area and when someone pulls into the drive way and I am somewhere on the 20 acres, the gun safe is a long ways away. So I started caring around the house and on the property. Last year we ran into 5 rattle snakes. Kids found everyone of them but PRAISE GOD they are smart kids stayed away and yelled for their daddy to come and shoot them. Guns became even more important to have on the hip. Several foxes and one cyote trying to get into my chicken coop also.
 
I always carry around the house. I also work at home. There are too many home invasion stories and many burglaries are attempted during the day while people are out of the house at work/school. Been a victim of that already and I don't take chances.

It isn't paranoid if it's already happened. Be prepared.
 
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