Just wondering where you keep your PD gun at night? If you were woken by a potentially armed intruder in your bedroom, do you have to go scrabbling under the pillow, is it resting on the bedside table or else in the locker in your cupboard??
Was reading something recently on the WWW, concerning wound/trajectory paths, about how a man managed to kill his wife with his gun as they lay in bed; the police assumed that he murdered her, but it was apparently proved from the angle of the entry wound to her head that the gun he kept under his pillow would have to be pushed so far into the mattress (by the weight of the guy lying on it) before the shot was fired that he could not possibly be holding it at the time - it was ruled as an AD leading to a tragic accident in the end. I didnt take all of the detail in, but i had no reason to distrust the article. I don't know whether it was a cocked SA or a unlocked DA, but assuming that no-one would sleep on a chambered pistol(!?), it could be a DA with the lock swept off by movement of the pillow above it; i can then believe that the bedclothes could get wrapped inside the trigger guard, then as the guy rolled over the dragging movement of the fabric allows the discharge to occur.
Might be an unlikely event, but personally i'd be scared witless sleeping with my gun sticking in the back of my head. Dont think i'd even feel that comfortable with an un-chambered SA there! I dont really think that a gun under the pillow is going to be any quicker to get to than the gun on the table in this situation, though it has the advantage of being hidden from sight.
Sorry to drift off topic a little there; the question is, do you keep your defense weapon close to hand,(and in what readied state?) or put them away for the night? Do some people even store their weapons in another room, hoping they'll never have to get to them in a hurry?
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Was reading something recently on the WWW, concerning wound/trajectory paths, about how a man managed to kill his wife with his gun as they lay in bed; the police assumed that he murdered her, but it was apparently proved from the angle of the entry wound to her head that the gun he kept under his pillow would have to be pushed so far into the mattress (by the weight of the guy lying on it) before the shot was fired that he could not possibly be holding it at the time - it was ruled as an AD leading to a tragic accident in the end. I didnt take all of the detail in, but i had no reason to distrust the article. I don't know whether it was a cocked SA or a unlocked DA, but assuming that no-one would sleep on a chambered pistol(!?), it could be a DA with the lock swept off by movement of the pillow above it; i can then believe that the bedclothes could get wrapped inside the trigger guard, then as the guy rolled over the dragging movement of the fabric allows the discharge to occur.
Might be an unlikely event, but personally i'd be scared witless sleeping with my gun sticking in the back of my head. Dont think i'd even feel that comfortable with an un-chambered SA there! I dont really think that a gun under the pillow is going to be any quicker to get to than the gun on the table in this situation, though it has the advantage of being hidden from sight.
Sorry to drift off topic a little there; the question is, do you keep your defense weapon close to hand,(and in what readied state?) or put them away for the night? Do some people even store their weapons in another room, hoping they'll never have to get to them in a hurry?
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"England, twinned with our great friends the PRK."