Posted: 5/22/2010 8:26:56 AM EDT
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Not really a carry issue but this is the best place where it fits so here goes.
for those of you who are married or have live in GF's: do you keep a gun on both sides of the bed? We leave on a ground floor apartment  and I sleep by the window with a shotgun under my side of the bed.
Last week, my GF went to bed before me and when I came in, she was on my side of the bed, sound asleep. Sometimes it happens after sex when we just fall asleep wherever we end up but there is no gun on her side of the bed. I think it is almost a must to have a weapon on both sides of the bed for just this reason. any thoughts? |
| My wife carries and shoots well. There is an AR and a pistol on both sides of the bed while we sleep. Both rifles and both pistols have lights. We also almost exclusively stick to our side of the bed. In other words, I get about six inches of the edge on the right side and she gets the rest. |
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Both sides plus a strategically placed spare. This My side has an AR carbine and an XD45 Her side has a Mossberg 500 12ga New York reload is an Mforgery. No trolls kids so we can have guns anywhere we want. There is always a firearm within reach of me when I'm at home. |
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In my bedroom my wife's side of the bed is ber business. She keeps her 2" S&W .38 unloaded with a speedloader by it in her nightstand drawer. Her Glock 19 is under the bed on her side unloaded with 2 full magazines in the case.
I keep an AR beside my bed with the bolt locked back, safety on, loaded 20 round magazine in it. Extra 20 round magazine on my nightstand. My 2" S&W .38 in on my side of the dresser (where I put it when I get home from work) unloaded w/ 2 speedloaders beside it. The kids have NEVER been shown how to use a speedloader. The kids have never been shown how to load an AR. The kids know how to use their 10/22s but that's it. |
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In my bedroom my wife's side of the bed is ber business. She keeps her 2" S&W .38 unloaded with a speedloader by it in her nightstand drawer. Her Glock 19 is under the bed on her side unloaded with 2 full magazines in the case. I keep an AR beside my bed with the bolt locked back, safety on, loaded 20 round magazine in it. Extra 20 round magazine on my nightstand. My 2" S&W .38 in on my side of the dresser (where I put it when I get home from work) unloaded w/ 2 speedloaders beside it. The kids have NEVER been shown how to use a speedloader. The kids have never been shown how to load an AR. The kids know how to use their 10/22s but that's it. I'd personally rethink that rifle storage strategy. There are 3 different ways from that condition to unlock that bolt and send a round into battery...... |
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In my bedroom my wife's side of the bed is ber business. She keeps her 2" S&W .38 unloaded with a speedloader by it in her nightstand drawer. Her Glock 19 is under the bed on her side unloaded with 2 full magazines in the case. I keep an AR beside my bed with the bolt locked back, safety on, loaded 20 round magazine in it. Extra 20 round magazine on my nightstand. My 2" S&W .38 in on my side of the dresser (where I put it when I get home from work) unloaded w/ 2 speedloaders beside it. The kids have NEVER been shown how to use a speedloader. The kids have never been shown how to load an AR. The kids know how to use their 10/22s but that's it. I'd personally rethink that rifle storage strategy. There are 3 different ways from that condition to unlock that bolt and send a round into battery...... Yeah i agree...mine is chambered and safety on...we don't have any kids around either. also releasing the bolt in the middle of the night or something is noisey...gives an intruder a heads up. |
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In my bedroom my wife's side of the bed is ber business. She keeps her 2" S&W .38 unloaded with a speedloader by it in her nightstand drawer. Her Glock 19 is under the bed on her side unloaded with 2 full magazines in the case. I keep an AR beside my bed with the bolt locked back, safety on, loaded 20 round magazine in it. Extra 20 round magazine on my nightstand. My 2" S&W .38 in on my side of the dresser (where I put it when I get home from work) unloaded w/ 2 speedloaders beside it. The kids have NEVER been shown how to use a speedloader. The kids have never been shown how to load an AR. The kids know how to use their 10/22s but that's it. I'd personally rethink that rifle storage strategy. There are 3 different ways from that condition to unlock that bolt and send a round into battery...... +1 I'd rethink all of it. Teach the kids how to use them and teach them a proper respect for them and you'll have less issues in the long run.. |
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The real solution to your problem is to reclaim your side of the bed while she is in the kitchen making you a sandwich after sex. i think i spotted a winner. haha this is a technical forum so i'll keep the pics to myself 
Sounds like a need a bigger budget though! sounds like everyone has the place on lockdown |
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1. There is a 'her' side of the bed and a 'my' side of the bed. Like toothbrushes, some things are not meant to be shared.
2. I keep the 870 against the wall in a place we both can get to it easily and a 1911 on my nightstand. She is fairly hopeless with a handgun though we have had range sessions getting her better. |
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I have a girlfriend that "hates guns", even though she doesn't have a sound argument as to why guns are "bad". But such is love, we just don't see eye to eye on the gun thing (yet ).
Most nights we spend together are at my place. There is a Kimber Custom Eclipse and Insight HX150 under my side of the bed, though I admit they used to be on the nightstand before we started dating. If for some reason we weren't sleeping on our normal sides of the bed, there is a Rem870 with a Surefire 6P mounted in the closet about 4 feet away. There is also a G19 with a Streamlight M3 in a desk drawer on the other side of the bedroom. For the nights we sleep at her place, the options are more limited. I have the same Kimber and Insight combo (+2 spare mags) in my bag which is always hanging on the back of a chair a few feet away from the bed. |
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I make her sleep on the couch with a flashlight. I sleep with a G17 on the nightstand and a Mossy 500 under the bed. You have to go through the living room with the couch she sleeps on to get to the bedroom so hopefully she makes enough noise it wakes me up. Hell yeah.............put HER on100% Security............good call. I'll try that.
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Do you guys secure all these guns when you leave every day? I do not leave an expensive and lethal weapon attainable for any burgler when I am not home. I would have to get up 30 minutes early just to lock all that stuff away each morning.
There is a pump and flashlight under my side and her Kahr and flashlight on her side. The rest are locked in the safe and we never switch sides of the bed. More importantly, both our cell phones are in the bedroom at night. EDIT: I forgot the two 50 pound dogs that would be up and moving at the first "different" sound from any other part of the house. I doubt they would attack but they would scare the hell out of any stranger who did not expect them and wake anyone else in the house. |
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We're really very predictable about which side of the bed. She pretty frankly doesn't have much business with a handgun dedicated to her side. In the room on my side are G19 w/ 2x15 magazines and my Ruger LCR (my primary and BUG CCW's).
A few steps away in the closet is a 6+1 social shotgun. All others are stored in the locker down the hall. Cell phone stays on my nightstand as well and my 2 dogs have the run of the house at night. Hopefully they would give me a few seconds warning before anything went bump in the night. |
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. We also almost exclusively stick to our side of the bed. In other words, I get about six inches of the edge on the right side and she gets the rest. thats about all the bed that i get too. +2 My carry piece always sits on the night stand right next to me with a 14.5" carbine 4ft away. |
| We stay on our designated sides of the bed for the most part. The only exception is when she decides to take up 2/3 of my space and I get up and walk around our king size bed to sleep on her side where there is more room (happens about once a year). With that being said, my 1911 on my side with a Spare powermag loaded with 10 rounds and my wifes SCXD 40 loaded with the extended mag and the spare mag on her bedside. I always make sure to make my presence known if I come home late and have to disarm the alarm for fear of hollow points ruining my day. Other than that we are both good to go. In fact, they were both out recently when a cop decided to ring my door bell and bang on my door at 2am to tell me my garage door was up (the wife had gone out to the car and accidently hit the garage door button instead of the light). Pretty sure he would have rethought his decision if he knew what he had pointed at him while he was standing on my porch. Once we figured out it was a cop (I peaked through the master bath window to see if there was a car and it was a cop car) we went from being on alert to being extremely annoyed. The only good thing to come out of the situation is practicing our contengency plan in case SHTF. |