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Now for the next question: is this twice as scary?

Keith wrote:I would think most robbers would carry handguns not shotguns. They don't want to bring attention to themselves and need both arms to carry the stolen property.On my Winchester Defender it's much more easy for me to just pump then find that darn little safety button on the side in the dark.

This is the other problem that I have with keeping all of the long guns chambered; all told, I have six different types of safeties on my long guns. (Assuming we count no manual safety as a type.) It's much easier to determine the action type in the dark than try to remember whether the safety is a cross bolt, lever on the side, lever on top, slide switch on top, etc.

sar wrote:so I take it you all are in agreement with me then.

No. Storing a non-drop-safe gun (most long guns have none of the various drop safeties common in handguns) with a round chambered is asking for trouble. I rack the shotgun because that's what it takes to make it go boom. If it happens to scare a home invader away before I have a clean shot, so much the better.

Most here accept that there are hundreds, if not thousands of defensive handgun uses every year that we don't hear about because no shot was fired, and they are therefore either not newsworthy or not reported at all. It's odd then, that everyone assumes BGs who get scared off at the sight of a .32ACP are immune to the sound of a 12ga simply because there isn't a stack of well-documented reports from people who made the bump in the night stop with a double-clack in the bedroom.