[ExSoldier]

Good thing it wasn't a .45. Or too bad, it might not have happened with the grip safety.

During those cool winter months here in Florida, we sometimes sleep with the windows open. I always sleep with a .45 in condition 3 under my pillow. Condition 3 is full mag, inserted but with an empty chamber. I do this because one cool winter night in 1996, I woke just in time to have to do hand to hand combat with the burglar worming his way inside my bedroom and my .45 was too far away in my night stand before he made contact. I was able to knock him back out of the window and then arm myself. But I was very lucky. If I hadn't had the alarm on, it might've gone the other way. I have severe sleep apnea, so I sleep with an oxygen mask and an air pump humming away. The "white noise" this produces keeps both my wife and myself in a pretty deep sleep.

[AnAmericanMother]

I have a son who could wreck a junkyard with a rubber hammer and is always meddling with things, so my Sig P245 is in a small quick-release gun safe bolted to the headboard of my bed. It costs me a few more seconds, but I figure my Labrador Retriever will hold off any intruders for that period of time (by jumping up on them and licking them to death. Luckily she will "down" on command. I'd hate like heck to shoot my dog.)

[Sender]

No one that I am aware of ever woke up finding he'd been shot by a .45 and was surprised :)