How are your bedside guns stored?

[FAS1]

I keep my home defense gun in a handgun safe that is mounted to my bed frame right next to my pillow. It is very quick and easy to get to. My shotgun is loaded in my big safe if needed and I have to retreat in that direction where there is plenty of cover.

 

[Kuyong_Chuin]

I keep my glock 19 in a bedside safe that gets opened every night and closed every morning. I also have whatever I am carrying beside the bed at night, it goes back into my pants when I wake up. I would love to be able to keep a shotgun or AR by the bed but my concerns are...

1. I have a daughter who is 3, the gun has to be locked up or out of reach.
2. If it is just hidden out of sight, I worry about coming home and meeting mr. No good who now has found my 12g. (This happened around here not too long ago, man was shot with his own .357)
3. A long gun in a safe would be very slow to get into action, and I would probably bypass it for the faster acquired handgun.


Is there a safe and fast way to keep long guns by the bed?

Back when I was in high school I made my Grandfather a gun rack that is bolted to the wall using lag bolts. But what is the key point to this rack is how I designed it. The end where the barrels go are not open like most racks. They are square holes cut into the wood ( I didn't have a hole saw blade back then), the side where the stock sits are cut like a normal rack. I then made a piece that has semi circles cut where the stocks sit. This board has a hole drilled at the top that is bolted to the top of the rack. The bolt is a hardened 3/4 inch bolt with a 2 inch washer on each side of the rack and the nut is spot wielded to the bolt. When the "arm" is lowered it is secured by putting a long thanked lock through the hole that is drilled through the base of the rack and the hole on the security arm. It is good enough of a design to keep a any that doesn't have a key to the lock or something big enough to break the security arm in two. Replace the wooden security arm with a 1/2 steel arm of the same has arm on there now and you would need a sledge hammer to get to the guns. Better yet make the whole thing out of metal like T6 aluminium and it would be near impossible without the right tools to get one of the guns out of it.

 

[Frosty Dave]

If I still had kids at home I would check into adapting this for a long gun:

http://www.gunpuck.com/

It's sold as a handgun lock but it seems like it would work on a long gun stood vertically and supported by the buttstock on the floor.

To me, the web site & video aren't very clear on some details but the inventor says this in a comment on youtube:

In the video I am pressing three numbers simultaneously and pulling the WallHolster out and retrieving my handgun in a couple of seconds. What you don't see is the #6 button with a red hash mark was first rotated to the proper position. Its like a safety. Its an extra layer of security that you can select when ordering.

You can order a WallHolster with a simple code that is for instant release or a more complicated code to foil pin-code manipulation. It your call! As for the location; use your imagination! A closet wall, side of a bed, under a drawer, in a drawer, in a Pelican case, in a car trunk or attached to the driver seat, in your RV and so on. The WallHolster provides a safe place to park and lock your handgun.

 

[torqem]

I would never trust such a thing (or myself operating it) in a tense situation. If the pistol is not in my pocket, under my towel as I shower, I want it under the mattress, near my head, on my side of the pillow. The "practice-spare" is the wife's ccw, so it's under the mattress on her side, when it's not in her carry rig.