Ive always kept at least one mag for every gun type topped off with defensive rounds. Either JHP for pistol or heavier soft points for my AR. All of them secured separately from the long gun safe. (I have other primary defensive firearms for immediate threats)
Before Sunday I always felt a little paranoid about the above. Thinking along the lines of a SHTF scenario that would require an eventual bugout. Now I dont feel so weird about it.
If anything, this hero's "failure" is educating us on what we should be doing. Lets not waste his experience/errors and honor the victims by heeding his indirect warning via his missteps. Admit it; that failure to keep a certain kind of weapon at the ready because you probably wont need it "because there are others" is not that uncommon. I own that mistake. And fixing it doesnt cost much (if anything) and doesnt require any additional resources, storage, etc.
For me, even though I was ready, I'll be ordering more heavy soft point ammo and upgrading to a bigger ready mag. That 20 was OK, but there could always be more available in a bigger mag for an insignifcant amount of space in the cabinet/ammo can.
My Son and I actually ran a timing drill... There is a church down the road... He runs into the room... Dad there is something going on at the church, get out of chair, go look, crap!, run down stairs, spin combo lock, miss once, spin again, open, grab 1 mag, 1 box ammo, grab rifle, try to load mag on the run (its hard), go out back door. Stop timing. Almost 2 minutes.
TX Sunday also changed my preparedness thinking.
One of the advantages of "carry mags" and "training mags" is having a full mag ready to go if range time turns into something else.
I entertain no fantasies of sprinting out the door to challenge a mass shooter, but if you don't have at least a full magazine and a full reload on hand...it ain't much of a defensive firearm, yo.
agreed.
This has turned out to be quite the educational thread.
When I first read through it, I loaded my pistol mags. Now, I'm loading my rifle mags as well
I've been using shoulder bags since the mid 1990s.
B b b but, taint n boolits im doze mags!
Progressive.