@huadpe:

1: That is of course your personal opinion and I'm not going to have a problem with you saying that you don't like firearms.

2: In a country where private firearm ownership is prevalent, how do they know you DON'T have a firearm as opposed to them knowing that you have one? Your argument is a bit fallacious.

3. Show your work? And again, this brings me back to your argument being fallacious. How does the criminal know weather or not you have a gun? Why is he more likely to break into your house to get it? The majority of lawful gun owners know how to use their weapon better than the criminal does, not to mention the fact that most gun owners keep their weapons locked up in a safe when not at home.

The U.K banned almost all private firearm ownership. All that happened was people got stabbed more. Police in the UK have to wear vests much heavier than an American cop because while Kevlar can stop bullets, it can be cut rather easily with a sharp instrument like a knife. So not only do Brittish cops have to be protected from bullets from criminals who have firearms anyway, they have to protect themselves from being stabbed.

I sleep with a gun within reach every night. I cannot rely on others to protect my home because I'm too far out in the county. Gun owners and gun users are not crazy right wing nuts who want to shoot any noise in the back yard. We are people who live too far from town to have police response times that would deter break-ins.

@jwarner132: And 3. The sound of a shotgun is quite...distinctive.

@sbcale: They make wall mounted cabinets to put your handgun near your bed.

@taka2k7: Great, so they get in anyway. Now what do you do? Those alarmed windows won't help you when the average time it takes for the cops to show up is 15 minutes - and that's after the alarm company calls them, adding another step. That's the average, mind you; it can easily be longer, even hours from when you first call. Remember, the cops do NOT have an obligation to protect you. Their job is to find the crook later, not to be your bodyguard. Frankly, my own life and my family's is worth protecting.

I'm going to guess none. People that own firearms are generelly smart enough not to have a round chambered with the safety off.

And also @WARNER13: Kicking a gun won't make it go off. Dropping a gun won't either, this is a fallacy that the movies like to show, and then a scare tactic by the anti-gun movement.

I'd really hate The Consumerist to turn into some gun/anti-gun flamewar like so many other websites.

I am waiting on the under the pillow handgun version :)

In some cases, you don't even have to keep it loaded. There have been cases where the sound of the pump action was plenty to scare off the bandits.

Seriously, how freaking paranoid do you have to be to buy this? I wonder how many of these guns have gone off while they climb into bed?

Buy a security door and window alarms and and keep the shot gun in your gun safe.

I'd rather hide a throwing knife under my bed and pretend I can throw it just like Steven Seagal

Must suck for people who have a tendency to roll off the bed at night...

@jwarner132:

I think the only way to miss is because of hesitation, and its amazing how some people doesn't know how to use one, my friend's dad owns a shotgun, and my friend doesn't even know how to use the pump action (pull the button behind the trigger and pull back then push foward to load, point and fire), guns are not safe for those who keep it as a deterent but doesn't know how to use it

Sorry, son, you're going to have to amend your Christmas list.

1. They scare the crap out of me, and I would feel unsafe just looking at it.

2. It isn't a deterrent if nobody knows you have a gun.

3. If people know you have a gun, it makes it more likely they will break in in order to steal the gun from you.

Not saying you don't or shouldn't have the right to a gun, I just don't feel like exercising that right.

I think it's an ok idea, but if you have kids in the house you'd have to unload and secure it every time you left the bed without the shotgun in hand. Depending on the state you live in, you might have to do that regardless of whether or not you have kids in the house. In any case I'd be worried about accidentally kicking it, or have it get caught in the bed sheets when I need it most.

It looks funny, but shotguns are actually great for personal protection inside the home because
1) At close range, it's hard to miss, and in the home, most encounters are close range.
and
2) If you do miss with any of the shot, the pellets will be stopped by a wall instead of travelling through and hitting someone in the next room like a bullet might.

Its official- Everything has now been invented.

I'd put a big ass salami in each one.