RESULTS: Where Do You Keep Your Gun At Night

By John Falkenberg

Most everyone has a different way of storing their firearm away at night.

Whether you sleep with a handgun tucked under your pillow like an action movie hero or you keep a shotgun unloaded on a rack nearby, people tend to govern their choice in storage based on the answers to two major questions:

1. How quickly can I get to my firearm if I need it?
2. Is it stored in such a way that other parties — robbers, children, guests not familiar with firearms — can’t get to it?

You could actually add to that second point how easy it is to be accessed by you in given circumstances — I know more than one sleepwalker who keeps their firearm in a safe without a round in the chamber for fear of doing something while not in his/her right mind. Nothing wrong with a little bit of caution.

ConcealedCarry.com’s Jacob Paulsen conducted a study in which he assessed nighttime firearm storage preferences, and some of the responses he received may well surprise you.

He found that when concealed carriers go to bed, the sweeping majority keep their firearms nearby the bed out of a safe — apparently they feel that the time …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation