Onward Allusion
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I prefer double-action, safety off (if applicable), and round in chamber. Just pull the trigger and be done with it. Just make sure you have a good holster.
The sound of a gun cocking can be enough to stop certain threats.
Some firearm instructors & tactics trainers advise gun owners to leave a round or two off to reduce the tension on the pistol magazine spring. This, to me, isn't bad advice, but most modern firearms & metal components are engineered to last for long periods.
It won't shoot if it isn't loaded.
Could someone please come up with another saying to describe an unloaded firearm. A unloaded firearm is not a paperweight or a brick or all the other the things people describe them as. A unloaded firearm or more correctly described as a loaded firearm without a round in the chamber. Is a firearm that will take a few seconds to put a round in the chamber and use if people are happy with that that's their decision.My carry gun for the day and my bedside gun both stay loaded at all times. An unloaded gun is an expensive paperweight.
That's why you make sure their is a bullet in it before you want to use it.It won't shoot if it isn't loaded.
Really? Then with a chambered gun, the time it takes to raise the sights will also be too slow. Or the BG would be close enough to turn your loaded AND chambered pistol on you And you'll be dead. If the BG is close enough that you don't have enough time to rack your slide, you're probably screwed anyway.The time it takes for you to rack that slide is enough for someone to get the jump on you and end your life.
Family members have being shot people mistaking them for intruders. I doint know about most people but I am not on the ball when woken in the middle of the night. So maybe the few seconds to load the firearm would give me time to make sure it was a real threat and not some family member going to the toilet. As others have said if a intruder can get that close to you in your house quick enough that you have not time to load a firearm then its not the firearm that's the problem its your house security that needs looked at.It's either loaded and chambered, ready for me to pull the trigger, or it's unloaded and being cleaned. Any condition inbetween begs the question "why?". Is it "safer" not having a round chambered? No. It still won't fire unless you pull the trigger at the very least. In most autos you also have to de-activate one or more safeties.