Do You Keep One Chambered?

In my truck, one is in.
My pistol at home, no.

Semi automatics only.

What do you do?

Yes

At all times on all guns

As time goes on, more and more.

Yup. It's just a paper weight if it ain't ready to go. Whatever you do, make sure you sufficiently train with the way you keep them. Don't want to be in a panic situation and trying to fire on an empty chamber.

This.

Even the cleaning lady knows.

All the time

I don't have any loaded guns

If there’s not one in the chamber, your gonna lose every time.

Yep!

All the time!

Yes, 24/7/365.

Yep; all of them ready to go play social games if required. 24/7/365

Yes, 100% of the time.

Absolutely...

Always one in the chamber. Especially at the lease never know when you will get a quick chance at a coyote or hog.

If it ain't loaded and ready to rock, you gotta swing awful hard to make it an effective hammer!!

This!

Even in my safe,..I treat all guns as loaded so might as well be.

Rifles, no. AR loaded mag but not chambered.

I have a couple of pistols locked and loaded round in the chamber. Also keep a couple rifles and shotguns loaded without one in the chamber….ready to roll in less than a second…

I’m confused.

Yes. I have a tool belt if I want to carry a hammer.

If it is drop safe (all of my handguns are) they have a full magazine and one in the chamber.

Rifles and shotguns are all carried "Cruiser Safe", full magazines, bolts locked on an empty chamber, safety on.

Nope, not in my bedside gun which is a 32 auto. It does have a full clip and just a slide away from being ready to go. I also have a .22 S&W long barrel double action in my dresser drawer ready to go. It may not kill someone but just the sight of should make them think twice.

Magazine.

That's funny.

Always. I don’t get people who don’t. My BIL carries his pistol and a spare mag daily, empty chamber. Seems crazy to me.

Everything is always loaded and chambered. I read posts in the other sections on here about never chambering a round, until the person is about to shoot or in their deer stand, because they think they are being safe. Cracks me up every time. Monkeying around loading and unloading a gun is the best way to have a ND.

If it is out of the safe, it is loaded.

Semi-auto pistol that is holstered:

Not keeping one in the chamber is like saying you will put your seat belt on right before the car crash.

Usually about 30 minutes after eating I announce that I’ve just chambered a live round. Then I excuse myself.


1911s and striker fired alike. If it’s mine it’s full to the brim. Although the 1911s do make a good club when you run out of anmo.

Always

Carry gun and bedside rifle are chambered, safety on. Rifle walking to the stand gets chambered once I am situated in the stand. No crossing fences or climbing ladders with a loaded chamber.

Ok this deserves a

1 in the chamber, 7 in the clip

No.. I keep mine unloaded, field stripped, and various parts placed around the house.

One not in the chamber is called a dead man’s gun for a reason…

This…

Anything else and might as well have a hammer.

Of course, I may need to discharge it before someone does theirs.

Used to, but with a 5 year old I recently changed my mind

To each his own, but I can't think of a good reason to keep all of the guns in my safes chambered at all times. If I have time to open a safe, I have time to chamber round. Having loaded mags in my guns in my safes is good enough for me.

Banana clip , let Chiquita speak

Same. With a 5 and 3 year old in the house, I don't anymore.

Yep. Rogan had Andy Stumpf on this past week, and Rogan showed some ignorance talking about how dumb it is to leave one chambered. The specific context was about the road rage incident where the guy was shooting through his window and windshield. Andy acknowledges the guy was an idiot but then put Joe in his place by talking about if you're scared to carry without one in the chamber then maybe you shouldn't carry in the first place. Plenty of logic there when it comes to raw motor skills, reaction time, and gun handling

On all HD/SD guns, yes. Guns being "stored", no.

This.

I do on my carry gun, but not on my nightstand gun because of kids at home. I saw a stat one time that 500 kids per year die from accidental gun violence, almost all of which is accidental discharge from them finding an unattended loaded weapon. That's a bunch of kids per year...

I think that 500 number is about average for all accidental shootings per year, not just kids. But yes with young kids at home you have to make the call that's right for your situation.

Same here. In chamber when carrying, not in chamber when stored.

In addition to the life-long grief of potentially having your child, or another child killed, you can also expect to face some prison time if a kid gets hurt because you failed to secure your weapon at home.

I could be wrong, but I think the number is substantially larger when you add in adults. Would be interesting to get something from a reliable source.

Even if it's 200 or 300, it's still a lot of kids.

I been thinking about getting one of those quick-open safes for my nightstand and putting a loaded pistol in it and opening it at night and closing in the morning.

I'm thinking about buying one of them weird 22s, or them strange 1911s that are glued together so I can keep two chambered.

Yep

I've got 3 kids, ranging from 15 down to 6 years old. From the time they were about 3 or 4, I started showing them my guns. I want them to see it and handle it. I let them play with it and even pretend shoot it, but only at blank walls - never pointed at a person.

My theory is that curiosity kills the cat. I want to satisfy their curiosity in a safe manner. It takes away the mystery, and they know they can always ask about them. The youngest especially likes to see and handle the guns, and I try to indulge that every time he asks. Each and every time I go through the basic rules:
1. NEVER touch a gun without me there.
2. NEVER point a gun at a person or pet.
3. NEVER NEVER NEVER let your friends show you a gun.


And to the OP - in the house safe, carry pistols and HD rifle are loaded, chambered and on safe.

When hunting, everything gets unloaded at the camp house. Everything gets chambered and on safe when heading to the stands. Can't tell you how many pigs and yotes get popped from the lease roads. And in mule deer country, spotting/stalking from the truck is sometimes the most effective means to hunt.

This

I do , truck gun and at home. No one knows where they are but me

Lots of dead kids were given similar rules, or had friends over who weren't given those rules and found the loaded guns and shot themselves or others.

There's a reason you have to be 18/21 to buy a gun. Kids can't be trusted to be responsible with a firearm. If you keep a loaded/unlocked firearm at home in a place where kids go, you're taking an unnecessary risk of hurting your kid or a kid visiting your house.

Actually about half of AD deaths in children were with kids who were over at a friends house (rather than their own). So roughly half the time, what you teach your own kids isn't even addressing the person who is most likely, statistically, to be involved.

I do agree that I don't teach kids to fear guns. My kids are 7 and 11. Both have shot 410, 22, and 12 gauge guns. They know where my guns are and know the basics of gun safety. But I would NEVER knowingly leave a loaded gun unlocked in a home with kids. It's just irresponsible.

I think you misread a sentence in his post. These are good rules to follow as you teach your kids

Have 4 and 2yr old curious boys running around the house so all guns are locked up at all times. 2 gun safes, 2 Vline handgun safes for each floor, 1 console safe in truck. Just not worth it. I cant get toddlers to stop pointing toy guns at each other, putting them in their mouth, looking down barrels so damn sure not gonna chance them coming across a real one.

I dont carry with round chambered either. Got too many little hands grabbing at dad ALL the damn time. Had one of them deploy my Microtech auto knife the other day in my pants pocket - thankfully not an OTF model.

Carry & HD guns chambered ready to roll. Also keep a couple shotguns, a 10-22, and an AR in the safe with mags loaded and chamber empty. Rounds chambered when they leave the safe

This is such a dumbass thread

I keep a revolver; always loaded. I don’t want to wonder if it’s loaded, on safety, etc if I wake up and realize that a threat exists.

Yep

It's close to a dumbass thread. At least no one has said something stupid like "I carry on an empty chamber so I can rack the slide. That noise alone will scare off the bad guy." Now that would make it a dumbass thread.

Then again I haven't really read the whole thread so maybe I'm wrong.

Glad I’m not the only one thinking It.

I have seen many, many dumb [censored] threads here, but this thread has value.

I’m not Israeli so I keep one chambered.

I see why you were attracted to it

What if the friend is over at your house and goes inside without your son and finds your unlocked and loaded gun?

You're going to jail and you'll never be able to live with yourself if the kid does something stupid. It's just really irresponsible to keep unlocked and loaded guns that aren't directly attended by adults.

Most threads here are…

I think you should sell all your guns.

Already sold them all to Bob at the gun show. Huge profit. YUGE

Why do you keep loaded firearms in reach of children? I have children and they get into GD everything and I have managed to make sure this does not happen. What is your point?

No.

Chambered unless it's a deer rifle that I'm carrying to my deer stand, at which time I just keep several in the magazine. I wait until I'm sitting and ready to hunt before putting one in the chamber, and remove it before I get up to leave. I do this to avoid accidents while climbing into and out of deer stands, as well as when handling a rifle around vehicles where shooting accidents commonly occur. The tragic death that occurred this past season in East Texas serves as an example of that.

Please show me where he said he leaves loaded guns lying around for kids to find in his house. I'll make it easy for you as well, it's reposted below.




Spoiler alert: He doesn't. You said that doesn't help with another kid, and I highlighted rule #3 that you have to teach your kids to not get in a bad situation as well as take the curiosity out of it. You're talking in circles, but that's ok because I'm not dizzy

I'm not addressing his comments specifically. He addressed mine and I provided a generic response.

I am simply saying, once again, that leaving loaded and unlocked guns in the house is creating a recipe for disaster, and is exactly the direct cause of the death of hundreds of kids per year.

He is saying he teaches things to his kids. That's good, and I do too. But what about when your kid has friends over at your house? They aren't taught those same things. That's my point. I'm sorry if it was unclear earlier.

I don't. That was my point - anyone who does is taking significant, unnecessary risk.

But what determines "in reach of children"? In my opinion, anything not in a locked safe or on your person is "in reach of children".

If I'm carrying my handgun it's loaded, chambered and has no safety.