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What benefit do you see in having your revolver unloaded?

Because that is how I was trained starting at around age 10 when I got my first gun. We have children coming into our house often (wife teaches piano), and even though all my guns are locked up and not even where they are apparently visible, I don't want to take a chance with other people's children who may not ever have been around one and know how to handle it. That is the only one where I even keep the ammunition even close to my gun, the others are in a cabinet safe with the ammunition locked in a separate safe drawer below it. I don't care what 'discussion' board may laugh, this is my choice of responsibility based on the situation I am in. I wonder if those discussion boards would laugh at someone keeping a loaded gun under their pillow ala hollywood.

"Because that is how I was trained starting at around age 10 when I got my first gun."

You were trained incorrectly. And you have grossly misinterpreted the NRA Gun Safety Rule #3.

I can't view the US military documents you posted (I don't have Power Point), but I am sure that a soldier on guard duty wouldn't keep his weapon unloaded "until he needed to use it". Can you imagine such an absurdity? "Please wait Mr. Terrorist while I insert my magazine and pull the charging handle".