mljdeckard
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Just because we keep the chamber empty doesn't mean we plan on scaring the bad guy by racking the slide.
Even the fire department?
Locked and loaded is the only way to go. I can't believe anyone would practice anything else for true home defense.
The sound of you racking the slide isn't going to panic a bad guy looking for drug money packing the same gun, it's just going to pinpoint your location.
Somewhere in the time I get woken and the time that individual could get to my room I think I would have time to drop the bolt on my gun.
It is very likely that someone could be in my face by the time I'm aware that there is a problem.
Racking a round in the presence of another person in some states be considered an act of attempted murder.
Your DAO pistol is drop safe. A pump shotgun is not.I am of the mind set that an unloaded gun is a paper weight. So, my SD handgun has one in the chamber in my night stand. It is a DAO pistol.
Locked and loaded is the only way to go. I can't believe anyone would practice anything else for true home defense. The sound of you racking the slide isn't going to panic a bad guy looking for drug money packing the same gun, it's just going to pinpoint your location. And I bet he's loaded and not locked !
There have been cases intruders leaving the home they brkoe into after hearing a round getting racked, and then calling the LEO's to report that the homeowner racked a round from outside of the home at them. Even though it never happened that way. The LEO's show up and the homeowner has a shotgun with a round chambered and gets hauled away and charged with attempted murder. If you don't rack the round into shotgun who knows you even had the intent to use it. They never heard you.
Actually, the fire department can, and will, gain access. And if you interfere, you will be taken away in handcuffs."Even the fire department?"
No, not even the fire department. My circumstances are unusual, not the norm, so quick assumptions may not apply. In this case there is no chance of fire fighters as such being either in a situation of danger or even fighting a fire inside the structure. Can't happen.
My second option given may be better for some people, or neither one as the case may be. Just descriptions of my personal choices.
I'm thinking this guy owns Oussama Ben Laden's cave.No, not even the fire department. My circumstances are unusual, not the norm