This video is pretty convincing that it makes sense to carry while at home, and likely it makes more sense than to carry when away from home. . I will admit that normally I do not carry at home, but I probably will start doing so right now.
Do you carry while in your home?
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Yaworski
Hawkeye
Meh. I don't have a home that looks like a target for home invaders. I have two 20+ year old cars, no burglar looks at my little house and those cars and thinks, "Yeah, he has cash and jewelry."
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Masaad Ayboob has an expanding metal gate in his upstairs hallway to seal off his house. That's extreme paranoia for a part time cop.
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
I carry from the time I get up until I go to bed and the firearm is near me when I sleep.
Yes. If it isn't on my person it's in a Remora holster setting right next to me. If I go into another room it goes with me.
Well, I'm carrying a few extra lbs, but no gun. Do have one or two stashed.
I would be happy if I was carrying just a "few" extra pounds
I do have a couple of handguns stashed with gun magnets. When we have people over the handguns go in the safe.
Sometimes when I've been out I don't take the gun off but usually no I don't carry while at home. But because there are never any children in our house I'm never more than about 10ft away from a loaded Sig P239.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I am thankful that I don't live in a place where I would feel the need to be armed 24/7.
I don't necessarily always have one on me but I can quickly get to one if needed. If someone were to break into my house while I am home, I can get one quick enough that they will meet their doom.
I am never "not carrying", period. I remember hearing once: "if you have the right to carry, always carry. A domestic terrorist act doesn't have to be in a group. It could be one, or two anywhere! You may be the person to stop it!" You don't have to have a fancy house or cars, for some piece of shat to want to take something from you. They'll take anything to turn into quick cash for drugs. Or, they're high, spaced out, & just want to hurt or kill something, or someone. I can't imagine answering my door without being armed. My son is former law enforcement, injured on the job, & medically retired. How many people hold a grudge against law enforcement, after being stopped or arrested? You just never know how far they'll go, to get even. Hes' got 3 young boys 7 & under at home, along with his wife. You do whatever it takes to protect
to protect your family as well as yourself. Whatever it takes. That expanding gate, makes sense to me, as well as always carrying at home. I don't keep a fire extinguisher in my home because I know there's going to be a fire. I'm simply doing whatever it takes to be ready, prepared, just in case.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Do you carry your fire extinguisher from room to room with you?
Being that paranoid would harsh my mellow. However, you do you.
epags
Single-Sixer
No, I do not carry while at home. I do live in an upper end neighborhood but my house has facia boards with rust from nails showing, the dirveway has stains on it and best of all, the owners of the local cannibis shop and lounge lives 1/2 block down.....IMO, if anyone is going to be invaded, it will be them. Any action there will give me time to be armed to the teeth. 
Armybrat
Hunter
No.
But I can be armed in about five seconds if necessary, unless I’m in the shower.
In that case the intruder would die laughing.
But I can be armed in about five seconds if necessary, unless I’m in the shower.
In that case the intruder would die laughing.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
No.
davevabch
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No, I do NOT carry when in my Castle (home). Hell I do not even carry my damn cell phone. The internet, gun forums, YOUTUBE video's and other crap have turned the gun world into a over the Top bunch of nonsense. Nothing but a false propaganda dumb crap way to make money. No need for a Beretta combat shotgun for example for home defense. No need for a High capacity magazine, multiple magazines,big bore handguns, and on and on. It is called marketing. SELL, SELL!
MORE IS BETTER, MARKETING 101! GOD IN HEAVEN, IT NEVER STOPS. NO WONDER THERE IS A MORE TOWARD THE SIMPLE REVOLVE! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. STOP THE NONSENSE!
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Then what I did makes me uber paranoid. Back in the 80's I was working all sorts of shifts, days, swings, nights, weekends and holidays. That left my wife and two kids home alone quite a bit. Just after I bought my house I decided to make it safe for my most prized possessions. I talked to some experts. The best piece of advice, and the piece upon which I based my entire security plan, was simple. "Keep them outside"
To that end I put up a perimeter fence (now it won't stop anyone, but it changes the showing of intent for a criminal). Windows were replaced, needed it anyway, and rolling shutters installed. This included the sliding glass door, a favorite of theives). Not bars (I had seen what bars can do to people in a house fire up close and personal). The front door was replaced with a decorative steel door in a steel frame. Properly installed by a professional. Strategic plantings of various cacti and such prevented easy access to the window yet avoided hiding spots.
Now even with the best preventative measures stuff can happen. Kids leave doors open and such. So I built a safe room. I took the master bedroom and removed the wall board on the interior two walls and sheathed them in 1/2 plywood then re-sheet rocked them. The bedroom door was replaced with a solid wood door properly installed, with a deadbolt, kept the little people out when privacy was desired, as well (not a double keyed deadbolt, I'd already seen what happens when panicked folks can't either find or use the inside key).
Should anyone get inside the house, they'd have to get inside the room. But behind that door was a woman who had already gone mama bear on one fool who tried to grab my eldest from his stroller. In her hands would be a 20 ga shotgun that she is very, very proficient with.
Today the kids are grown and gone (but they learned and their houses are hardened). But being cops they know stuff. Except for some of the plantings (turned out I'm allergic to cactus sap) everything remains, especially mama bear and her shotgun.
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It’s not paranoia. It’s being committed to carrying.
I don’t want to carry a gun sometimes and sometimes not. For one thing, what I usually see happening there is the times they carry get fewer and farther between.
This is often accompanied by “I carry when I think I might need it”. I wish I knew when I might need it.
I don’t want to carry a gun sometimes and sometimes not. For one thing, what I usually see happening there is the times they carry get fewer and farther between.
This is often accompanied by “I carry when I think I might need it”. I wish I knew when I might need it.
Yes.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Thanks. Now I need eye bleach.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Nah, it's paranoia. I lounge about in gym shorts or sweat pants. I'm not wearing a gun belt with that.
As I said before, you do you. If I get killed by a home intruder, you can say "Told ya!" but I'll never know.
Busterswoodshop
Hunter
Doesn't anyone have dogs anymore ?
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I don't believe in subjugating a lesser species. Eating is fine. Forced servitude is wrong.
Busterswoodshop
Hunter
Seriously ? Forced servitude ?
My dogs aren't forced to do anything.
They do though , protect what is theirs.
They have a better life than I do.
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Yaworski
Hawkeye
Nope........ had a "full carry" for probably 30+ years, NEVER carried, gave it up this year. We do have a coupla shotguns available; try to take them out and clean them every two years....just in case..
I tell people to get their carry license here just to make life easier. By law, if you don't have a license you can't stop for lunch on the way home from the range.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I'm sure that you tell them to sit and stay and don't poop in the house. Some day your dogs will be demanding reparations.
We are the same here, my husband would have them laughing, I would probably be laughing also! We too keep weapons handy within a matter of seconds. Just sitting here at the desk in less than 3 seconds I can have a H&K USP .45 in hand, and other rooms are similar.
Often times when I come home I forget to take my carry gun off so yeah, I frequently have a gun on me. Just works out that way.
If I don't have one on me, there is always one in reach. I don't need to carry it room, to room. Each room has one.
My home defense gun is a Benelli M4. No one "convinced" me to purchase the M4. It fit a variety of needs, the main one is that I am not crazy about pump shotguns and my wife has ZERO experience with them. Her skeet gun is a semi auto, so it makes sense to keep it simple.
We live in a very safe neighborhood.
We have a dog.
We also have fire extinguishers in multiple areas of the home.
If I don't have one on me, there is always one in reach. I don't need to carry it room, to room. Each room has one.
My home defense gun is a Benelli M4. No one "convinced" me to purchase the M4. It fit a variety of needs, the main one is that I am not crazy about pump shotguns and my wife has ZERO experience with them. Her skeet gun is a semi auto, so it makes sense to keep it simple.
We live in a very safe neighborhood.
We have a dog.
We also have fire extinguishers in multiple areas of the home.
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