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Originally Posted by Superman
According to my NRA gun safety course, my father and grandfather, and every other reasonable gun owner I have talked to, you are an idiot if you keep loaded guns in the house, particularly with live ammunition in the chamber. FWIW.
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Really? Well, you always thought I was an idiot anyway, so no loss there. I don't recall reading in the Armed Citizen column of the American Rifleman any story about someone hearing a disturbance in their house, then going to the gun safe, getting out a gun, loading it, while the intruder waits, and then confronting them. I have no kids and my wife knows what she's doing too. My master bedroom is in a corner of the house with one way in and one way out. My gun safe is in another room. Why would I bet my wife's and my lives on the chance that I can get to a gun and load it before an intruder can block my exit from the MB? I've not ever heard of a gun loading itself and shooting someone. If I ever do, I'll rethink my home defense plan. As for keeping an unloaded gun in the night table and a loaded mag. or speedloader nearby, that's just adding 5-10 seconds to being to defend one's self in an emergency.