At night, Loaded, full mag plus 1 in chamber and ready to roll, also the first place for retreat is the closet and have a shotgun loaded and ready with a trigger lock thats easy to take off with cell phone in closet thats good for 911 only in case I can't get to the land line. Other guns are locked up as they should be with children in the house. During the day they are all locked up.

 

Harry

quote from http://www.chuckhawks.com/handgun_home_defense.htm

 

Autoloading pistols are more likely to jam than a revolver, particularly if fired through cloth, say from under a bathrobe in a sudden emergency, from an unusual orientation (upside down for instance), or with a "limp wrist" (insecure hold). They have one other very significant drawback: they are magazine fed and the spring in a loaded magazine is tightly compressed. Magazines should be rotated on, at least, a monthly basis. The spring in a loaded magazine left unattended for an extended period of time may take a "set" and then lack the pressure to reliably feed cartridges, causing a jam.

 

I'm fairly certain that this has been disproved multiple times. Think of a beat-to-sh*t car sitting on blocks, the suspension was probably still keeping the car raised and it may have been sitting there for decades.

I'm fairly certain that this has been disproved multiple times.

 

Whenever I'm not shooting my USP, the same magazines I use at the range are loaded with HD ammo. This has been the case since I bought it 2 years ago. The magazines continue to feed reliably every time. In fact, the only pistol I own that has NEVER had a failure(not counting my hk45 since i've only put one box through it so far), is my USP.

.40 in my nightstand. Mag is loaded but chamber is empty