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Boma · 02-06-2006, 03:44 PM

How do you guys store your handguns? I just got a lil 60lb safe that I tucked mine into. Do you keep your ammo together in it or separate?

021411 · 02-06-2006, 03:48 PM

On my nightstand loaded and ready to go.

I usually keep my guns and ammo together.

mlgar71 · 02-06-2006, 03:50 PM

I have a similar safe, and store my three pistols and all of the ammo in there... I like to keep both 2'gether

ichy_trigger · 02-06-2006, 03:59 PM

I have a double locked cabinet built into the wall of my gun room for the long guns and non used pistols. Carry guns go in a small safe in my bedroom. Ammo is in the cabinet, on the cabinet, on the loading bench, in another cabinet, in our gun bags, I think there might be some in the trunk of my wifes car too.

mlgar71 · 02-06-2006, 04:08 PM

Correction!

2 of my pistols are stored in the safe with the ammo.. My XD is with me, or close too me, and loaded at all times...

No Children Yet! So that's not an issue right now...

BikeRider · 02-07-2006, 06:32 AM

Always have a handgun loaded on the nightstand (no kids). Always have a handgun loaded and ready when I'm home. When working down in the barn I typically have a holstered handgun. Some years back a guy that I grew up with was murdered. Two guys came into his yard. Executed him (shot him in the head) and took his car so they could get back to Baltimore. Just some random horrible thing. I'd rather not be such a victim. Of course the day I leave the gun in the safe will be the day the random thing happens.

qballwill · 02-07-2006, 06:48 AM

I have no kids either so I can be fairly free with the location of them.... have 3 of them unloaded in a plastic case.... three of them loaded in a dresser drawer in my office (never know which one im gonna carry when I leave the house so all 3 of them are ready to go) and I keep my XD45ACP in my nightstand ready to rock if need be... lets hope it never comes to that point though....

Harvdog · 02-07-2006, 07:02 AM

I don't own an XD yet (hopefully VERY soon) but I usually keep my 357 magnum loaded and under my mattress when I'm home and in my truck the rest of the time. My 25 auto is on me almost always.

Boma · 02-07-2006, 08:55 AM

What's a 25 auto?

I'm a noobie.

taxi2you · 02-07-2006, 08:55 AM

I keep in the box under my bed. I just bought it before winter and have only been shooting once because of the weather. It is my first pistol and when I get better I will be carrying and keeping really close most of the time.

02-06-2006, 03:44 PM	#1
Boma XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 684	Gun Storage? How do you guys store your handguns? I just got a lil 60lb safe that I tucked mine into. Do you keep your ammo together in it or separate? __________________ The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -Sun Tzu

02-06-2006, 03:48 PM	#2
021411 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,019	On my nightstand loaded and ready to go. I usually keep my guns and ammo together. __________________ XD40 : Custom SA 1911 Springer Precision TX XD Practical Shooters Association

02-06-2006, 03:50 PM	#3
mlgar71 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NE GA Posts: 135	Storage! I have a similar safe, and store my three pistols and all of the ammo in there... I like to keep both 2'gether __________________ SA- Micro 1911 GI Romanian AK-47 7.62x39 Romanian AK-47 10/63 Krinkov Taurus Pti 111 Titanium 9MM Taurus 24/7 Pro 45 Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ Orwell

02-06-2006, 03:59 PM	#4
ichy_trigger XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 7,571	I have a double locked cabinet built into the wall of my gun room for the long guns and non used pistols. Carry guns go in a small safe in my bedroom. Ammo is in the cabinet, on the cabinet, on the loading bench, in another cabinet, in our gun bags, I think there might be some in the trunk of my wifes car too. __________________ "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member2645.png

02-06-2006, 04:08 PM	#5
mlgar71 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NE GA Posts: 135	Clarification! Correction! 2 of my pistols are stored in the safe with the ammo.. My XD is with me, or close too me, and loaded at all times... No Children Yet! So that's not an issue right now... __________________ SA- Micro 1911 GI Romanian AK-47 7.62x39 Romanian AK-47 10/63 Krinkov Taurus Pti 111 Titanium 9MM Taurus 24/7 Pro 45 Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ Orwell

02-07-2006, 06:32 AM	#6
BikeRider XDTalk Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 79	Always have a handgun loaded on the nightstand (no kids). Always have a handgun loaded and ready when I'm home. When working down in the barn I typically have a holstered handgun. Some years back a guy that I grew up with was murdered. Two guys came into his yard. Executed him (shot him in the head) and took his car so they could get back to Baltimore. Just some random horrible thing. I'd rather not be such a victim. Of course the day I leave the gun in the safe will be the day the random thing happens. __________________ Glock 19 Glock 27 Kimber Stainless Gold Match Ruger Mark II .22 Sig P220R w/Night sights Taurus Raging Bull .44 mag Taurus 85 Taurus 608SS6 Will buy an XD when SA sells parts for them.

02-07-2006, 06:48 AM	#7
qballwill XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Port Bolivar, Tx Posts: 236	I have no kids either so I can be fairly free with the location of them.... have 3 of them unloaded in a plastic case.... three of them loaded in a dresser drawer in my office (never know which one im gonna carry when I leave the house so all 3 of them are ready to go) and I keep my XD45ACP in my nightstand ready to rock if need be... lets hope it never comes to that point though.... __________________ XD-9 Bitone / XD45ACP Springfield Lt Wt Bitone 1911 S&W first model of 1899 / S&W M&P S&W 10,17,19,27,29,65,625,629,646,686x2 Kel Tec Sub 2000 Bushmaster AR15 M4 Winchester 1300 Defender Texas XD Practical Shooters Association

02-07-2006, 07:02 AM	#8
Harvdog XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Montclair, Virginia Posts: 352	I don't own an XD yet (hopefully VERY soon) but I usually keep my 357 magnum loaded and under my mattress when I'm home and in my truck the rest of the time. My 25 auto is on me almost always.

02-07-2006, 08:55 AM	#9
Boma XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 684	What's a 25 auto? I'm a noobie. __________________ The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -Sun Tzu

02-07-2006, 08:55 AM	#10
taxi2you XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Missouri Posts: 156	I keep in the box under my bed. I just bought it before winter and have only been shooting once because of the weather. It is my first pistol and when I get better I will be carrying and keeping really close most of the time. __________________ You can tune a piano, but you can\'t tunafish. Never pet a burning dog. If the world made sense, It would be the French men that wore dresses and not the Scottish.

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