Options for Staging a Defensive Firearm

When it comes to staging a firearm in your home for the defense of your family, in a worst case scenario, you really have two options. Option number one is to place the firearm in the area that you're going to spend most of your time. Now, if you work at home, if you're a stay-at-home mom, if you're awake and moving around your house, but you know that you spend most of your time in the kitchen or most of your time in a home office during the day, then that can make a great location to stage a firearm. Now, how you stage a firearm loaded, unloaded, in a quick-access safe as I usually recommend, hidden, or even in plain view, is going to be a whole separate decision. But, when it comes to the location, putting the firearm in the place that you're most likely to be in the event of an imminent home invasion, someone's trying to break into your home, or you realize there is an intruder inside of your home, makes a lot of sense because it allows you to arm yourself very quickly and very efficiently.

The second option you have, especially if you work outside of the house, if you spend most of your day away from the home, and you know that you're only going to be coming into the home really to have dinner, maybe to read a book, watch a little TV, and then go to sleep, you may choose to place the firearm in the area that you are most likely to barricade. In other words, if you know that you're going to be staying in your bedroom, you're going to install a deadbolt, and you're going to have a solid door, instead of a hollow-core, normal, interior door in your house. In that room, you're going to throw the dead bolt, get on the phone with the police, have the firearm in your hand, and stand by there waiting for the police to respond. Hoping of course, that the bad guy leaves or that the good guys get there in time to take care of the problem and you won't have to. That barricade area can be a natural point to stage a firearm.

So if you know that you're going to get to that room and lock the door. That's where you want to keep the gun. There's no point in having the gun on the other side of the house and needing to go get the gun and then come back to your barricade area. So those are really your two options. When it comes to staging a firearm in the home, option A, where you're going to spend most of your time, option B, where you're going to barricade.

You need to make a decision that makes sense for you. And of course, if you have multiple firearms in multiple quick access safes, you don't have to make the decision. You can choose the stage of firearm in both locations.