Bet she won't do that again!

I hadn't heard about this - thanks for posting it. Have to share it with the wife. Have gone back and forth over this issue for years with her as to why loaded and securely accessible is the only way to go.

Yes. If you NEED a gun, you need it "right fucking now!"

That's a crazy story. I wonder why the gun was unloaded? You would be better off keeping a knife or mace handy. WTF are these people thinking? I have always liked the saying, if you pull your gun you better be prepaired to use it. If it has no use, why pull it.. Tragic none the less.

Boy that could have turned out better with a "bang" not the loudest sound "click"

My wife doesn't like the idea of a loaded gun in the house (handgun or shotgun).

Currently, we live along side a major MN highway and this bothers me, so I keep 2 loaded guns in the house at all times.

We used to live out in the middle of nowhere (the kids had grown and moved out, so she was there alone with the dogs), and one snowy winter night, some dumbass put his Jeep in the ditch just down the road from our house (I was driving truck over the road at the time).

The wife heard the dogs barking and got up to investigate. Seems that the dipshit decided that he 'needed' to use my phone and decided that there was nobody home.

My dogs kept him from going any further than the doorway (my black lab had him pinned to the floor and the other dog was 'standing watch' when the wife entered the kitchen ).............and he had enough brain cells left to choose to be dog food or continue with what he was attempting....

Needless to say, my dogs kept him at bay long enough for the wife to grab Mr. 12 ga. Mossberg and introduce him to the dipshit that forced his way into the house.

She doesn't like it, but since then, there has been AT LEAST 2 loaded firearms in the house at all times that are readily accessible at all times to those that know where they are (me, wife and kids).

She probably believed her gun would load itself and fire on its own, as many dangerous weapons do.

I'm no great fan of keeping loaded shotguns around.

1. They're harder to secure than handguns, and
2. A lot of them don't have firing-pin blocks, and are likely to discharge if dropped.

Keeping a loaded shotgun leaning in a corner of a closet isn't wise. (Of course, you could keep the chamber empty, and rely upon that ka-chunk to tell the goblins that they've picked the wrong house...)

This one turned out a little better for this guy:

Another fine example of "hope".

An unloaded gun is little more than an awkward brick.

Yeah it looks like it hurts too!
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