How long does it take you to get to a loaded gun?

[David4516]

Right now? As I work on a military installation I'd have to go home to get a firearm. I do however have a BB gun in my car, a daisy. I might be able to put out somebody's eye.

At home, downstairs I have a Star Model A 9mm Largo, loaded mag but empty chamber. Could probably get to it and chamber a round within 10 seconds from anywhere downstairs.

Upstairs there is a Remington 870 20ga, again shells in the mag but emtpy chamber. Again, about 10 seconds to get to it and chamber a round, from anywhere on the second floor.

However, at night, if suddenly awakened by intruder(s), I think it would take me longer. I'd have to fumble around to find my glasses first (don't sleep with them on LOL), roll out of bed, get shotgun, chamber round. I'm guessing 20 to 30 seconds before I have everything I need, and have woken up enough.

 

[modifiedbrowning]

Three pistols within arms reach.
15 feet to 12 gauge shotgun.
20 feet to AR 15
Small apartment.

 

[Warrior Honey]

That's, uh, classified...

 

[strm_trpr]

about 15 seconds to go upstairs and open the pistol safe for the g23 and about 15 seconds to go downstairs to the safe for anything else. Before my son was born it would have been seconds to pick up whatever was sitting out near me.

If i am working it is just a quick draw away.

 

[longspurr]

one thousand one, one thousand 2, one thousand 3, one thousand 4

Either I have a loaded gun in hand, or I stubbed my toe and I'm busy cursing!

 

[Legionnaire]

Not long.

 

[Claude Clay]

i can kill you with my brain

darn but i don't remember what movie that is from. but if i need to use a gun, its as fast as opening a draw or getting to one. 2 to 10 seconds

 

[kennyshank]

WOW !! I never would have thought this, BUT..... Handgun is lying on desk to my right, (I'm right handed), It is already pointed at the door. In less than 1 second, I can be in position to start shooting, (no sight picture yet at that point) But I could shoot as I aquire. Problem ? it's not loaded right now, The mag. is on the table to my left. It takes me over 4 seconds to insert the mag and be in the same position because I have to point the gun to my left (away fron the door) to insert the mag, insert it, and then point back at the door. I didn't know that I couln't insert the mag with the gun pointing away from me like that. Even knowing that I'm "testing" myself I fumble with the mag horribly if I don't point it to my left. I just learned something, I always figured I could pop in a mag in "no time".

 

[Rexster]

A second or two to the house-carry SP101, two to three seconds to the personally-owned duty 870, and five to six seconds to reach my duty belt containing a P229 and two spare mags, or to my Safepacker with a P229 and a spare mag, or to a 4" S&W Model 19-5.

The dogs would probably give me enough warning to reach the farthest of these weapons, don my issued body armor, and dial 911 before an intruder could get to this room.

By "house carry" SP101, I mean the snubby that goes everywhere with me, regardless of what else I am carrying. At the moment, it is in house-carry mode, sitting next to me. Before I sat down, it was in a pocket, and now it is inches away from me. When I walk to the kitchen in a moment, it will go back into a pocket. With different pants, it stays in the pocket when I sit.

Some might think this is too high of a level of preparedness to maintain all the time. Well, my neighbors know where to run if something bad is happening, that being my house. I swore an oath to respond in emergencies. Fortunately, I live in a quiet neighborhood, so emergencies are rare, and life is not stressful. Even so, I never want to be out of reach of a substantial weapon. My hands are small enough that an SP101 is a substantial weapon.

I can have my hands on a rifle within a minute, more or less.

 

[outlook ranch]

2 Seconds flat. Always loaded and charged. They ain't worth spit if one ain't in the tube/cylinder.

 

[Rexster]

After looking at some of the posts, I scratch my head and wonder about this obsession with unloading one's weapons when at home. My rifles do not stay loaded, and guns that are stored away are unloaded, but my working guns stay loaded. I understand the need to keep loaded weapons out of children's hands; when my son was young, I quite simply keep a snubby pocketed all of the time, and kept the other weapons in various stages of locked-down security.

 

[AWorthyOpponent]

2 seconds. Its on the desk, next to the keyboard.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Mine is on my hip and loaded so I'm thinking less than a second to draw plus two spare mags also on my hip.

 

[ghostwriter]

this velco hold down on my shoulder rig is pretty tough (still new), so I'm guessing 3-5 seconds. If it's hanging on the kitchen chair, give me about 10 seconds tops. If it's somewhere else, the gun cabinet is only 4 steps past the kitchen and that model 12 with a 18-1/4" barrel (always loaded) is seconds past the kitchen.

 

[Headless]

~ 3 seconds.

 

[armsmaster270]

Last time I timed it 1.37seconds

 

[animator]

Have one on the computer desk as I type, so it would be less than a second. Keep one on the night stand, so I'm guessing it would take less than a second to grab, but realistically, would take a few seconds for situational awareness to kick in if I had been asleep.

Bathroom might take a second or two to unholster the carry gun while deucing it. Sitting on the couch watching TV, it might take maybe a second or two to reach the AR, shotgun, or whatever other rifle I felt like pulling out of the safe that evening. Kitchen would take a second or two to walk over to the pantry where an AK lives.

When I'm out working in the garage, there's usually something out there with me, be it a rifle, shotgun, or handgun. When in the gun room, well, that one's a no-brainer.

Longest it would take would be while driving. I don't keep a gun in the car, other than what I'm carrying, and drawing from a seated position in a vehicle is something I am not fast at.

 

[jcwit]

At present less than 1 second, from any location in the house never more than 2/3 seconds.

 

[Al Thompson]

Pants on, guns on.

 

[jpwilly]

I dialed 911 and they are still not here.

 

[Sevenfaces]

You know some of the replies here elevate people to "gun nut" levels. Is your home in such a dangerous place you can't take a piss without a gun strapped to your hip? I guess some people take the "Better to have it and not need it" way of thinking to different heights...

 

[Nushif]

After looking at some of the posts, I scratch my head and wonder about this obsession with unloading one's weapons when at home.

I do it because at homer in front of my comp is also where I dry fire from.

So I have a full mag sitting next to my gun .... which is also a really good indicator that there's a snap cap in my gun.
If I see no mag -> I *know* it's loaded.
If I see full mag -> Make sure my snap cap is in it before I dry fire. 8)

 

[Ala Dan]

I have never timed it; but I can be armed very quickly, even when the old arthritis acts
up~!

 

[HOWARD J]

1.5 seconds anywhere in the house except the bathroom ( about 4 seconds)

 

[carbuncle]

About 10 seconds from anywhere in my house.