For those of you that keep a M4 semi auto in your bedroom, share how you keep it stored. I’m looking for things like
Magazine loaded and inserted, but no round in the chamber.
Hammer down, safety on fire
I’m also interested on how confident you are that you could load a round in the chamber under stress. FWIW, I shoot SASS and think I could cock a Single Action, lever a Marlin 94, and maybe even put 2 rounds in a double under stress because I have done this 1,000’s of times under the clock. I’m not so sure if I could be as efficent in pulling back the charging handle, letting it go, hitting the forward assist and maybe turning on an Eotech.
That’s what I thought too until I started drilling with a H&K magazine in my new LE6920 at the range. If the magazine is full and I ride that charging handle just a little bit when going back “home” it sticks and I have to hit the forward assist. No problem at all when hitting the carrier release button with the bolt back. I may reduce the number of rounds in the magazine to lower the resistance.
On hooks behind mirror. Condition 3 (assuming this is ditto 1911 condition). Use aimpoint always on, low light setting. This is not my go to weapon for immediate defence. More like a “take a walk around the yard” deal.
But I’m wondering within myself in regards to a stress fire situation since I am severely myopic and rely on eyeglasses and my vision’s no farther than my nose!
I keep a loaded pistol (HK USP 45C), and an AR mag in no round in chamber next to me. Also have an 870 and G19 kept loaded in the closet as our safe room.
Ammo is Gold Dots for handguns, Mk262 for AR’s, and TAP 2 3/4" 00 buck for the shotgun.
60lb half rottie in the back, and two yappie dogs inside (my alarm).
Wife knows how to shoot everything I have so hopefully if it ever came to it she would do what she needs to if Im not home or get taken out.
Also keep a cell phone next to the bed. A smart robber would just cut the cable outside, and it would drop all land comms from most people’s houses. Dont rely on the house phone, and keep your phone charged.
Mine sleeps at the head of my bed, in the slot between the top of the mattress and wall. L5 mag in, no round in chamber, safety on Fire, Pentagonlight eX2 mounted at ten O’clock.
Lets talk about this “condition 3” business. Is there a published readiness condition protocol for the AR, or are we simply borrowing from the universally accepted 1911 readiness conditions?
I keep mine with a loaded mag, unchambered. It sleeps right next to me.
A semi auto shotgun would be a more ideal bedroom/home weapon, IMHO. But this is situationally subjective.
I’d much rather be shot by a competent shooter than someone likely to remove a limb and leave me to bleed to death.
I also don’t think an AR is a good home defense weapon. Even in shortest legal form (aside from SBR’d), it’s far more difficult to sweep a room with than a pistol.
Lets put it this way - you know your house, the perp likely doesn’t: however, they’re gonna either see you pop out of a door and then have to draw on them, or they’re gonna see a barrel come around a corner and know they need to pop holes in the person holding it - either one isn’t a good scenario.
You can hold a pistol far closer to you and provide much shorter engagements and not have to swing your whole body to cover multiple perps.
All of this is irrelevant if your house has 14’ wide hallways and large open spaces beyond every doorway. Mine doesn’t.
