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Another vote for keeping it in the same mode at all times. Just because you're in your home is no guarantee that you'll have an extra second to rack the slide, let alone an additional two seconds or so to fumble with it before you remember that it's not in the same condition you usually carry it in.
As for making it safer to keep at home, your home defense pistol doesn't belong on top of the entertainment center, the china cabinet, the reficerator, the end table, or the nightstand (unless you're in bed, asleep); there is no guarantee you'll be close to one of those places when you need to grab it, or be close enough to prevent unauthorixed personnel (children, etc,) from gaining access to it. It belongs in the same place you normally carry it; on your body. Any handguns not on your person should be unloaded and locked away.
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Roger Shambaugh
Ottawa, Kansas
As for making it safer to keep at home, your home defense pistol doesn't belong on top of the entertainment center, the china cabinet, the reficerator, the end table, or the nightstand (unless you're in bed, asleep); there is no guarantee you'll be close to one of those places when you need to grab it, or be close enough to prevent unauthorixed personnel (children, etc,) from gaining access to it. It belongs in the same place you normally carry it; on your body. Any handguns not on your person should be unloaded and locked away.
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Roger Shambaugh
Ottawa, Kansas
