I rarely answer the door without my gun in my hand, although I do check the peep and sometimes just set the gun on the shelf near the door.RottenApple wrote:I've unholstered 3 times but place my hand upon my firearm (without drawing) every time I go to answer the door. 2 of the unholsterings (is that even a word?) were at my home.
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As for just placing my hand on my gun, every time I go to answer my door I do so. That way, should it be something bad, I'm faster at the draw. If everything is kosher, I just drop my hand and the person at the door is none the wiser.
Interesting side-story to that though. One day, about 10am or so, there was a knock at my door. I went to answer, asked who it was, and it was the local police. I still had my hand on my gun when I opened it, saw it really was the cops, and dropped my hand. The officer wanted to let me know that someone had egged my van out front. So we went, looked at it, filed a report, and talked for a few. Before she left, she asked me if I carried. I told her yes, and she said that was smart how I answered the door. She's the only one who has ever noticed that I keep my hand on my gun when answering the door.
I have held a drunk teenage boy that tried to muscle into my house while describing what he intended to do with and to my teenage daughter, with a shotgun. When the police arrived he tried to have them arrest me for assault with a deadly weapon. They just laughed and put the cuffs on a little tighter. His mother called me the next day to let me know how nasty she thought I was.