Indians For Guns

Hello,

Just wanted to know, after every day carry [EDC] - once you are back home - what do u do with the handguns??? Do you carry at home??? or is it kept safely???

For me, yes I do carry at home as I find it to be the safest and best place - by all means.

How about you??

Best regards

ssmickey.32

I dont carry at home per se. But I do have a gun of some sort easily acessable should I need it. Not that I expect a zombie invasion or WWIII to start at a moments notice.

Hi guys i maybe wrong on this,but i carry my handgun where there is a perception of a threat to my or my familys life,i do keep my guns at easily accessable places {they are easily accessable only tome} at home but like mickey said home is a very safe place. MoA, if zombie's do come i really dont know how good my 12 GA Shotgun or the 22/or the 30-06 is gonna be.Incase of the WW III coming up i think we are gonna get nuked so fast that even if the cavalry comes nothing much can be done cause we are gonna be vaporised.No I dont carry my guns in my house,but do keep a loaded crossbow near my nightstand

Amit357 wrote:i carry my handgun where there is a perception of a threat to my or my familys life,i do keep my guns at easily accessable places

Me too. Only when travling late at night alone or with family . I keep my weapons back in my cupboard . I always make sure that my kids are not aware of their presence.

My wife watches Zombie movies(for some reason) and I have thus seen quite a few. (My favorite: "Zombie Strippers", though my wife does not agree with me on this. ) None of them have ever taken place in India. So I think you guys are safe. Be careful if you on on vacation, however, especially in Haiti or Los Angeles. Ok. Washington DC, too.

Steve007 wrote:My wife watches Zombie movies(for some reason) and I have thus seen quite a few. (My favorite: "Zombie Strippers", though my wife does not agree with me on this. ) None of them have ever taken place in India. So I think you guys are safe. Be careful if you on on vacation, however, especially in Haiti or Los Angeles. Ok. Washington DC, too.

Carrying at home would be the height of paranoia

There are many jokes told about stupid thieves. In the area where I live, much of the thievery that goes on is done by kids from fairly well-to-do homes who are looking to get drug money. You can bet that when it comes to being smart and clever, they are not at the top of the list!

However, when it comes to these kids, or the thieves I knew about growing up near a dirty industrial town, there are qualities that few lack, despite their lack of intelligence: determination and thoroughness. No matter how clever one thinks they are, hiding things in shirt pockets in the closet, under the table in the structural parts, above the suspended ceiling -- in so many of those sorts of places, the ordinary common thief can find what the average citizen has hidden.

What I'm saying is that, short of a safe, if one thinks that a firearm is safe in a home hiding place, my experience and opinion would be that in 99% of situations, one is just fooling himself about the security of the weapon.

When I was young and working in that dingy and crime-ridden industrial town, most of us who worked evening shifts carried weapons to work. Even though this was strictly against the company policy, it was also overlooked by local supervisors, who understood the risks associated with being in bad parts of town. In one office, for instance, the guard who escorted ladies into the parking lot was dispatched with a rifle shot through the glass, hitting him as he sat at his desk in the lobby.

We had one fellow who worked evenings that was a nervous nelly type. This fellow corresponded quite closely to a TV character that's well known here in the USA, Barney Fife. He was a timid fellow who was determined not to be hijacked in the parking lot at night, and so he carried a 6 inch barrel .38 S&W in his briefcase. However, one night in the parking lot, the thieves were not so accommodating as to let the fellow retrieve his gun from his briefcase in time, and they relieved him of his weapon after robbing him.

Over a year later, the same gun was discovered with several others, after police chased down a getaway car from a supermarket robbery. One wonders how many robberies that weapon was used in over that year's time.

At home, I keep all of my weapons locked up in safes. Frankly, I wonder just how safe they are in there. Were someone to break in while we are gone, I don't know whether they could get the guns or not. The safe is a pretty good home gun safe -- very sturdy -- but thieves can be quite determined and resourceful when it comes to getting guns.

Now, if I keep a handgun by my bedside, I wonder:

1. Do I need to put it in the safe every time I leave home?

2. If not, what is the length of trip that will require me to put the gun in the safe?

3. My wife and I are sound sleepers. Can the weapon be retrieved by a thief as we sleep?

4. I've told the story about the fellow with the laser-sited handgun who, seeing the ominous form in the middle of the night, put several holes in his wive's fur coat that was hanging on a rack. Awakened by a disturbance in the night, can I have some assurance of hitting what I'm shooting at, being all sleepy-eyed, and will that target actually be a bad guy, or will it be a loved one up and about in the middle of the night for a glass of water?

These are questions that have crossed my mind when thinking about having a gun at my bedside.


Many years ago, my brother and I were out shooting. I belonged to a gun club in a mountain community that used to be quite affluent, but had been on hard times for decades due to the decline in mining activity. Thus, the gun club was well furnished, but had gone to seed over the years. There was a trap range at which the automatic machinery could be hand operated, but for skeet, my brother and I would shoot at road apples left by the caretaker's horse and burro.

Once, we were shooting my LC Smith double. The safety on it isn't reliable. When I snapped the action closed, a finger must have been on one of the triggers. The thing went off with a deafening roar right between my brother and I -- we were about 10 feet apart. It blew a hole about 3 inches in diameter into the asphalt walkway.

I still get shudders about this, thinking about how close death was that day. Since one of my uncles was killed in a hunting accident, this sort of thing is pretty real to us. I still shudder every time I think about that incident, just like I have now as I write this.

So when it comes to making preparations to use a gun, I admit to being a bit cautious, which includes the subject of this thread. I think about the benefit of protection, and I weigh it against the possibilities of putting a gun into the hands of criminals, or accidentally shooting the wrong thing or person in the middle of the night.

I guess my thinking would be clearer, if it wasn't clouded by those troubling experiences...

ssmickey.32 wrote:For me, yes I do carry at home as I find it to be the safest and best place - by all means.

winnie_the_pooh wrote:Carrying at home would be the height of paranoia

sometimes a poor husband might use his weapon to save himself from the thunderburst of his wife

I think carrying IOF revolver itself is a problem... sometime back i tried to holster an IOF revolver inside the waistband - it appears to be very bulky and protudes too much making it practically impossible for concealed carry. Concealed carry [IOF] is possible only if you carry without a holster - tucked in your waistband - which, in turn, is a very uncomfortable option.

I carry my Smith in IWB holster and it conceals very well. Except winters, i wear halfsleeved shirt that hangs loose. My Smith along with IWb holster has become very comfortable with my body [position, shape & weight wise] and that i actually have to check / feel if it's there. So for me carrying a revolver is a sweet pleasure and not a 'bulky item to carry'.

Moreover, i think it also depends upon many many factors that are related to security outside and inside your house... whether you live in a bunglow [guarded or unguarded] or flat? - how many sevants are working inside your house... Whether you live in a combined family? How many people open the door? Are children trained 'for whom to open door'? How quick you have access to weapons - and hundreds of many other vital factors etc etc..

in every way i find a win win situation if i carry at home.

@grewal, it's .32 wheelgun Vs AK57 you are talking about

grewal wrote:

Amit357 wrote:i carry my handgun where there is a perception of a threat to my or my familys life,i do keep my guns at easily accessable places

Me too. Only when travling late at night alone or with family . I keep my weapons back in my cupboard . I always make sure that my kids are not aware of their presence.

When I have kids, we will start teaching them about guns at a fairly young age. My wife is a paediatrician and agrees that education about the guns is most important. The kids will always know you have things, even when you think they don't. Then they will find them when the parents are otherwise occupied, and tragedies happen like this. When I was growing up, many of my friends' parents would allow us to look and touch if we asked permission, with their supervision, and because of this, the element of curiousity was eliminated. We never went to sneak a look at the guns, because we could just ask and look and touch whenever we wanted, and even got to go shooting sometimes.

Best to pass our passion for firearms on to the next generation!

I sometimes carry at home, sometimes not, but i keep handguns on both floors of my 2 story house, and one is never more than 30 seconds away. If someone knocks at my door in the evening, and I am not expecting guests, I always grab a gun before answering the door and tuck it in the back of my pants.

rpm148 wrote:When I have kids, we will start teaching them about guns at a fairly young age

I don't want my child to be exposed to weapons at such a tender age. I will teach then when they will be able to understand about them . And how do you think that your child will not misuse it when you will teach them about weapons. We teach so many things to kids but they still end up messing up everything. So you be careful . I will still stick to old plan.
It will be better if you start when you kids are above the age of 10.

Grewal,

In a response, I think that the USA is quite a different environment than India. By the time kids are 10, they have mobiles and girls are wearing makeup. It's not uncommon for kids to be having sex and experimenting with drugs and alcohol at ages as young as 12 or 13.

I think that keeping your weapons secure is important, and the majority of mine are unloaded. In my nightstand, I have a 1911 with a full magazine but an empty chamber. To rack the slide takes me almost zero extra time. The remainder of my pistols are stored unloaded, with full magazines nearby in case i should have to access them.

rpm148 wrote: It's not uncommon for kids to be having sex and experimenting with drugs and alcohol at ages as young as 12 or 13.

Doggonit!!! I was always left out..

Actually, this may be true in some locales, families, schools and ways of living, but not in others.

rpm148 wrote: I think that keeping your weapons secure is important, and the majority of mine are unloaded. In my nightstand, I have a 1911 with a full magazine but an empty chamber. To rack the slide takes me almost zero extra time. The remainder of my pistols are stored unloaded, with full magazines nearby in case i should have to access them.

Do you practice magazine changes? Clock the amount of time it takes you to slap in a magazine, rack the slide back and get the pistol sighted. Unless you're a GM class shooter and the pistol is equipped with a massive magwell and in the dark when you're half asleep it is not as easy or fast as you think. Try it out, clock your results and let us know.

Also, how often do you service the loaded magazine? That is, how often do you remove the cartridges and work the spring up and down and then reload the magazine? If that magazine sits loaded for a long time, you cannot rely on it to feed right. Better to leave a cartridge in the chamber - cocked and locked and a few extra cartridges next to it - the 1911 does not require a magazine to discharge and if it's chambered in .45ACP load up with Cor-Bon 185gr.+P JHP to get proven one shot stopping power.