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...Don't be a Mall Ninja-If you lock them up you should unload them. They don't do you any good locked up- so they don't need to be loaded!
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We have two family members who both CCW, and a rapid-access safe to keep them in when they're not in use. Condition 3 in the safe, which isn't unloaded.
Noise in the middle of the night? 7 seconds to open safe and get gun to Condition 1.
When we're not in the house, these guns are with us.
However, the long guns are a different protocol. Unloaded, in gun safe.
Rapid-access safes are a compromise between "instantly available" and "DC style storage" (that is, locked, disassembled & unloaded), and I think they are a good alternative if you are worried about the liability of leaving guns laying around.
Different answers for different situations.