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* Wracked by [[PTSD ShellShockedVeteran]] after WW2, Creator/AudieMurphy was only able to get to sleep by keeping a pistol under his pillow.
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* Not a pistol, but the titular character of ''Film/TheStoryOfWooViet'' hides three huge nails underneath his straw mattress, expecting his enemies. Sure enough, a punk intending to kill Woo Viet tries strangling Woo in his sleep, but Woo managed to grab one of the nails and shove it through his assailant's skull.
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* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', it is possible to occasionally scrounge weapons that have been hidden under beds. The best example is in the Crimson Caravan Company barracks. Check closely, and one of the employees will have stashed a gun in their bunk for an emergency. You'd think they would hide a silenced .22 Ruger, or an omnipresent 9mm Browning Hi-Power. Nope. The paranoid caravaneer tried to hide a ''10mm pistol'' in their sheets, a handgun so huge that it could theoretically be used as a bludgeon.
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** In the opening chapter of the first ''Bond'' novel ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Bond is described as keeping a Colt Police Positive revolver under his pillow. He sleeps with his hand underneath its butt, ready to draw and fire.

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** In the opening chapter of the first ''Bond'' novel ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', Bond is described as keeping a Colt Police Positive revolver with sawn-off barrel under his pillow. He sleeps with his hand underneath its butt, ready to draw and fire.



* ''Literature/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (a Creator/JohnLeCarre novel) a Palestinian terrorist comments that it's quicker to have the weapon by the side of the bed.

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* Averted in ''Literature/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (a Creator/JohnLeCarre novel) when a Palestinian terrorist comments that it's quicker to have the weapon by the side of the bed.

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