[scottmandue]

Let me start by emphasizing it is just my wife and I in the house and no children.
Let me also say we live in a nice neighborhood, I have lived there for 20+ years, no break-ins, no robberies, never been approached by a bad guy.
However wife moved in three years ago and now I have someone to protect.
Wife has joined the neighborhood watch and they are filling her head with all kinds of ideas of bad guys roaming the streets.
Logistics: I sleep on the side of the bed about thirty inches from the closet... I keep the 9mm in a nondescript book bag on the top shelf of the closet thinking if SHTF I would roll out of bed, slide open closet, reach in bag and be ready to go.
Or another option would be to keep hand spoon in end table next to bed.
A more covert idea is to get one of those cool hidden compartment things installed next to the bed... but no way am I spending +$200 on a shelf with a hidden compartment.
How do you guys that have a hand spoon for home defense keep it safely stored but within easy reach?
I have been eyeballing those small handgun safes with the button combination, anyone using one of them?
Thanks in advance.