Denfoote says:
"Sure, she has a pistol under her pillow!! In fact, I gave the weapon to her and insisted she keep it there. BS like gunsafes are not required here in the gun freedom state of Arizona!! Having the weapon handy in an emergency just might provide you with the needed seconds to save your life!!
Let me tell you a little bit about this G26. It has had a trigger job done on it. It has about a 3lb trigger pull!!! Do I trust my wife?? You betcha!!"
Well, I trust my wife, too, and I trust myself. And, I have a G17 with a 3.5 lb connector and polished components, and shoot it lots and lots, and like and trust it. But in my view, grabbing an unholstered Glock is like grabbing a rattlesnake; you had better grab it by the right part. Not something I'd want to do in my sleep, or just emerging out of it. So this is really one more reason, to return to the original topic/scenario, why a revolver (686, LSWCHP +Ps) is the first gun to come to hand in our bedroom (at least if the Glock is the auto of choice, which it is for me).
Here, let's see if I can turn what I'm trying to say into a controversial dogma (ahem): A revolver gives the best balance of safety, derived from the long and hard double action trigger pull, and instantaneous, no-brain functioning, and is thus the most suitable (hand)gun for defense in the range of disoriented and/or groggy situations conceivable in home defense.
There, it's not elegant, but dogma rarely is.
As for securing it: even my revolver is in a gunvault, but that's because there are children--our own and occasionally others--in the house. Were that not so, it'd be handier yet (bedside drawer, I suppose. I don't know how anyone sleeps with a gun under their pillow, anymore than I could sleep with a brick under there).
CG