How do you store your bedside gun?

[Expat]

I typically always have a couple loaded pistols in the nightstand. The top drawer always has the Glock 20 with 4 extra loaded mags and a mounted light.

 

[lamboz1]

fnx-45 in a gunvault


20141118_223648 by lamboz1, on Flickr

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Just slapped this together the other day...

 

[croy]

I'm getting ready to put a keypad safe on my dresser. I'll leave it unlocked at night and lock it during the day.

 

[pharmboy]

Usually I keep my Bulldog in my nightstand drawer along with a couple MN stripper clips full of Hornady Critical Defense.

 

[dbrier]

I keep the 92FS and a flashlight in the nightstand drawer.

 

[LP1]

I don't have to worry about kids, but I use a Speedvault SV500 elsewhere in the house. Secure, and very quick and easy - presents the gun so that it's easy to grab. Menards occasionally runs a sale on them.

 

[Psode27]

Anyone use a gun magnet? What about using one of those for the night, installing it up high on the back of the headboard? Then when the gun is not on me and the kids are up it goes in a biometric safe?

yep! they are pretty slick too. I use one for a different area of the house. it allows keeping a firearm where it is completely out of sight. unless you feel for it, you will not find it. I use a magnet covered in rubber with two bolt holes. speed magnet or something? I forget the name.

I have seen for sale on ebay where people are selling welding magnets with the intent to use them as gun magnets. I have thought about running to harbor freight and picking up a few more for that type of use but I just dont have a need currently.

 

[OWGEM]

yep! they are pretty slick too. I use one for a different area of the house. it allows keeping a firearm where it is completely out of sight. unless you feel for it, you will not find it. I use a magnet covered in rubber with two bolt holes. speed magnet or something? I forget the name.

I have seen for sale on ebay where people are selling welding magnets with the intent to use them as gun magnets. I have thought about running to harbor freight and picking up a few more for that type of use but I just dont have a need currently.

Magnets may not be the best idea...

Accidental Discharge Glock 23 - Magnet - Glock Talk

 

[magus]

Magnets may not be the best idea...

Accidental Discharge Glock 23 - Magnet - Glock Talk

Ooo. That's not good. We'll check ours with snapcaps before using a combat load. Thanks for that!

 

[Informed Decision]

My son created a bed holster for me out of scrap metal rods. He bent them to shape & then welded them together . I'm able to use the factory supplied paddle holster, & clip it in place on the rods. That all stays on the bed 24/7 & I pull my EDC & put it in my carry holster for the day. I sleep against the wall so any grand kids coming to spend the night will come to grandma's side in the middle of the nite. We have an alarm system that is engaged almost 24/7

 

[throttletony]

Fort know pistol vault (pb-1) and i love it!!!
can fit 2 full size handguns with extra mags And/or an extra light, knife, etc

 

[Cemetery-man]

Now that the grandkids are living in Noblesville my gun has been paroled and is out of the big safe and free 24/7 except for when they visit then it's back in prison again. No matter where I fall asleep, be it in bed or on the couch (when the wife discovers I bought another gun), my pistol is never out of arms reach.

 

[oldpink]

Inside a Stack-On PS-10 fingerprint-activated (with four-digit keypad entry as an integral backup) vault bolted to the floor on my side of the bed.
Just three touches are all that are required to open it, one to wake up the fingerprint scanner, another to read the fingerprint, and a third to rotate the now released locking mechanism to open the door.
Yes, there are more secure vaults out there with better biometric technology, but this works just fine.

 

[Csquared]

I have no kids or uneducated roommates to worry about so I keep mine in my n82 tactical holster and lay it between my bed and the wall. I try to never get more than an arm's length away from my handgun no matter what I'm doing!

 

[smith7.3]

Saw this on PSA, cool idea for sure.

 

[smith7.3]

Just slapped this together the other day...

Saw this on PSA, cool idea.

 

[edporch]

I use my carry gun as my nightstand gun.
That way it keeps me from ever forgetting it and coming home to get shot by my own gun or having it stolen.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

My carry gun (1911) is also my "nightstand" gun. The SBR is my "bedside" gun. I prefer it as it has a light on it, carries a higher number of more powerful rounds, and I'm better with it. I practice with my 1911, but I don't have anywhere near the trigger time with it, as I do with the AR platform.

 

[davedolli]

No kids in the house so consequently I am more worried about liberals trying to get them.

What he said!

Dave