What say you?
Not disagreeing - but can you give the rationale for each? Quick access is EASY to understand. Long store not so much.Quick-access guns are ALWAYS loaded.
Long storage guns are NEVER supposed to be loaded... but always checked before handling.
How so?Seems absurd to keep a gun with a round in the chamber in a safe.
I'm not the person you were asking but if I had a gun stored long-term in my safe I would want it unloaded, if for no other reason then so I wouldn't forget whether it was loaded or notNot disagreeing - but can you give the rationale for each? Quick access is EASY to understand. Long store not so much.
I think those are all valid.Cartridge corrosion is the first thought why unloaded storage is preferred.
Oil from the gun making the chambered cartridge ineffective is a second.
Limiting air in the chamber and trapping moisture.
Negligent discharge risk increase losing knowledge of what is chambered when mixed with unloaded.
Recently a friend came over who's not been to my home since I got my new safe. He said let's see what you have in there.
He wanted to hold my H&K .45 tactical, that was in the door-side pocket. I removed it from the pocket it was in, dropped the magazine and removed
the round from the chamber. At that point he freaked out (just a lil) and said NEVER EVER keep a gun loaded in the safe with a round in the chamber.
I'm a RSO and you should not do that. My point is that MY guns are secured in a safe which only I and my wife have the combination and what benefit
is an unloaded gun. Now I understand it's in a locked safe and it would take time to open the safe, however, I always have my EDC loaded and available to me when I'm in the house.
I want to make sure that if I have to grab another gun on the fly, it's ready to go. What say you?