# Chamber a round or not **URL:** \ **Category:** Concealed Carry\ **Created:** [April 4, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/chamber-a-round-or-not/80784 "2022-04-04T12:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
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Great post. I’ll try to copy links of prior similar entries. So poignant, that it still comes up for discussion. You’ll probably hear lots of good responses here. I appreciate that one chooses to carry, and respect how you are extra careful not to have an accident which can hurt you or someone else. I’m biased, in I want “responsible” law-abiding CCW holders to carry. I’d rather you not carry one in the chamber, if that’s your preference, than to leave it at home. If having a safety lever helps you be more comfortable, then good for you. If possible, maybe consider another one with a safety lever, to replace your S&W sigma .380, if you prefer. I carry the same calibers as you do. This is part of the reason I was careful to seek fire-arms (FA’s) of better quality, within my budget. At home: IDK, it depends, if there someone else at home who can gain access to it, I might prefer to take extra safety measures. What comes to mind is how the brain works, habits, and learning. In the heat of the moment, God-forbid, are we for certain to know if we have one in the chamber, do we need to rack it, or do we need to flip the safety switch? For that reason, personally, I tend to want to have all my FA’s set to the exact same stage of readiness, so that I have less on my mind, and focus on the safety business at hand, and doing the right thing. To support protection around young children, and intellectually disabled in my family, I carry a portable light weight lock box with key entry for ease, instead of using a thumb safety. As someone else mentioned, it does take a lot of skill to keep one’s finger and other items away from that trigger. I tend to think of it as an obsession to the point of “there is no over doing it” when it comes to trigger safety. One fear I have is when holstering, being extra careful not to allow one’s finger, or “shirt “, to get into the trigger guard, nor scarf, or any other cloth. Exercise: With one’s firearm completely unloaded, nothing in the pipe, and pointed in a safe direction, imagine or pretend to have a shirt swoop by the trigger guard, and one can see how easy it is to get it trapped in the trigger, and as one pushes the FA into the holster, the cloth acts just like a finger tugging on the trigger, an innocent cute & tiny shirt button – a dangerous anchor. Food for thought: Think further, could such a firing ever have occurred, an accidental shot, then the person pulls their FA out of the holster to look at it and try to figure out what happened, blaming it on the gun, but if a shirt got tangled in it - how on earth would they ever even know? I commend you for raising the awareness. > [@Store with one in the chamber?](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/store-with-one-in-the-chamber/77127): > > We have the “Carry” with one in the chamber, so why not a store with one in the chamber? thinking This is not about storing a single loaded pistol or revolver by itself in a bedside safe, but rather do you store any firearms in a multiple gun safe with one in the chamber? I have been storing with one in the chamber for a long time, but starting to rethink how much damage it could do to other firearms if it went off for any reason, for example, a house fire. If one is in the chamber, then it… > [@Should I carry 1 in the chamber](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/should-i-carry-1-in-the-chamber/75448): > > I’ve been hearing much talk about the Sig P320 regarding unintentional discharge to the point I stopped carrying one in the chamber. My question is, I’m I making too much out of it or is this a really big problem and I am on borrowed time? I personally believe the root cause of the problem is with the striker fire mechanism but no one else is saying that. Can you tell me if I’m making too much out to if? If anyone out there has facts to help me, I would appreciate your feedback. Thanks, Roge… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/chamber-a-round-or-not/80784)._