re: Preparedness planning for a home invasion

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W/ modern revolvers, there's no need to have an empty chamber under the hammer. It doesn't enhance safety. It DOES decrease your available rounds by one.

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1. This ^^^^^ = true.

To the OP(KYFAN):

2. The posts suggesting "safety on" and/or "empty chamber" are .......................................................................................... misguided. That's as PC as I can be.

3. I would suggest taking a serious look at some "immersion level" training. Check around in your area (defined as 200 mile radius) for a good two-day or three-day class on how to defend yourself with a handgun or shotgun. Most schools will explain that this is different from just "shooting" a gun.

4. If you need a gun, you're gonna really need one. This would suggest that you're really gonna need to be able to operate it under extreme stress.

5. Even with no kids at home, the guns need to be secure (don't want to get shot by the home invaders now, do we ?). But I doubt that many (if any) self-defense training academies will recommend an unloaded gun (empty chamber). And unless you are really proficient with the full range of your arsenal, forgetting to "unsafe" the gun is a real possibility -- especially under stress if you've mixed different handgun platforms in your arsenal.

6. If you're not really proficient, see #1 above.