my M2 ARRIVED, WONDERFUL, HOW DO YOU SET UP YOUR M2 AT FOR DUTY USE AT HOME?

[Bluu Knight]

DO YOU LEAVE THE CHAMBER EMPTY AS I AM DOING TONIGHT, MY FIRST NIGHT IT IS ON DUTY. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DROP ON THE TRAY, AND RACK IF NEEDED. I AM THINKING ABOUT KEEPING THAT OR LOADING THE CHAMBER WITH THE SAFETY ON.

DOES THE M2 have any issues with it going off if loaded and dropped???

 

[StrangerDanger]

Any kids in the house?

How are you storing it in the house?

 

Personally I leave it loaded with the safety on.

[JT111]

I personally do not store long guns with one in the chamber. Pistols yes. 
 

Here is one point of view.
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/cruiser-ready-how-to-store-a-home-defense-shotgun-2020-update/

 

Edited April 18, 2021 by JT111

[ButchP]

As SD asked, do you have kids in or frquent the home? I personally do not and leave the scatter gun and pistol chambered. That split second to chamber could decide the outcome.

[Bluu Knight]

I Found it best to leave the chamber empty, and release one to the carriage. This way if someone finds it and pulls the trigger it won't fire, and all you have to do if needed, is rack the slide and start shooting. Safe both ways. 

[Bluu Knight]

You can buy training shotgun shells, no primer or powder on Amazon to play with the function and actions safely. I just oiled my new one less than a week old, and use those training shells to work the gun to ensure I put it back together properly. 

[Dkay67]

Cruiser ready is the only way to store.

 

Do not lean a rifle or a shotgun. 

 

A safety typically on a shotgun only stops the trigger, it doesn't stop the hammer.

 

Plenty of YT videos on how to setup a shotgun in cruiser ready 

[bambihunter]

I had no kids, so or me to set one up for duty use. It involves me loading it to capacity. Ideally, it would be after taking it to the range and shooting enough to know it is reliable, but if that is my only option, I'll load it anyway.

Regarding one in the chamber... If I can't trust a firearm to not fire when it isn't supposed to by leaving one in the chamber, then I don't trust it period and it won't have a place in my house. ALL my guns that are for that type of role are loaded to full capacity, including one in the breech.

[Bluu Knight]

You say cruiser ready, are you a cop, I am retired from the job, and what most departments do is not always the best way. I am not sure if the safety on the Benelli is better than on the Remington 870, but I intend to find out!

[Bluu Knight]

On 4/18/2021 at 9:29 AM, ButchP said:

As SD asked, do you have kids in or frquent the home? I personally do not and leave the scatter gun and pistol chambered. That split second to chamber could decide the outcome.

If you only have a split second, your imagined scenario, whether you drink coffee or not, can determine if you survive. If not ALL, coffee drinkers are worthless coming out of deep sleep; I speak from experience on the streets. Most of such and alcohol drinkers, if I kicked their door in, walked, not run, up to their stairs and into their bedroom, they would still be lying there trying to decide if they heard something and what it was. They could have a full auto Mac 10 in their lap and die holding it.
The kid's question for you if you have any; others may make another choice. 
When civilians dream their scenario, mostly from movies, they imagine that they have it covered if they do this or that. As a cop, you learn quickly. Nothing works as you expect. Do you have an alarm? Do you have dogs? Do you have a wife who does not drink beverages that makes you get dead in deadly scenarios in the dark? Will you shoot your wife in the night since you woke up late due to your bad habits and did not realize she went into the hallway to verify something is going on, and you, one in the chamber, no coffee yet, or alcoholic smell coming out of your pores shoots her with your extra second. 
Your Hollywood scenario is not coming. Bad guys know where you are; your bedroom light is the last to go out. They know you do not have an alarm, and if you are in a moderate house, know this or that, and if you are in a prominent rich place with glass doors and large windows, they can peer through the glass determine where your steps are or if there is a movement of dogs and other intel. 
Nothing is as you imagine. Prepare your gun as you like. How you respond has nothing to how your gun works, my friend, your life depends on how YOU work!

PS: Your comment, "As SD asked" is childest. I answer to whom I care to, PERIOD!

 

Edited April 20, 2021 by Bluu Knight

[ButchP]

1 hour ago, Bluu Knight said:

 

PS: Your comment, "As SD asked" is childest. I answer to whom I care to, PERIOD!

 

WOW! You asked a question and I gave you my answer. No need to get pissy as your last response was "childish". 

I'm not saying your wrong as the boys in blue maybe taught differently on firearm readiness. I have served in the Army over 32 years and when we carry whether in theater or if we carry in garrison our weapon is chambered on safety and no different in my home. I can't count the times I have had to sleep with a chambered weapon. To each their own I guess.