Looking for a way to keep it handy at night. There is no need for me to keep it locked up.

What do you do or recommend?

Just off to the side.....of my sleeping arrangement....some might call it a bed if you will.

In all seriousness nightstand, locked in a simplex style safe.

Even if you have no prescient need to lock up your gun I still suggest having the facility to do so, as there are many times we have people in our houses that we may want to secure arms from. Sorry if I sound preachy.

But basically light/gun/mags in the nightstand.

Why not just leave it on the nightstand then?

I have kids, so my bedside pistol lives in this in the top drawer of my nightstand...

No kids , shotty next to the nightstand.

Shotgun in the corner, next to it is soft body armor with two extra ammo cards (slug and 00buck)-gun is loaded with five #4 buck.

Glock 19 on the nightstand.

Mrs. Mike has a coach gun behind the headboard.

... I keep it beside the bed.

Handgun goes from holster to nightstand, then nightstand back to holster the next day.

Also, when I'm home, the safe with the other main defensive long guns is left open. Before I leave the house, it gets shut and locked.

Under the pillow adjacent to mine...

I have teenagers in the house still so this is the best solution I have found to have both handguns and long guns at the ready.

Top drawer of nightstand. It goes in the vault during the day.

Glock 31 in nightstand drawer, ready to grab and go. Mossberg 12ga Shockwave mounted to side of bed within reach.

My "bedside" gun is also my carry gun, so if it's not on me then it's holstered on the corner of the bed next to my phone when I sleep, or on my computer desk if I am awake at home.

I'm like Rogue, what's on my hip goes on the nightstand beside the bed and back in the holster in the AM.
AR is in the room and gets locked up before I leave.

Before I had a kid, mine just sat in a nightstand. Now it's in a Fort Knox pistol box.

Both myself and my wife carry from sunup to sundown. Then our EDC gun goes on our respective nightstands. We have a holster that the gun slips into while on the nightstand - that way we don't have to unthread/unhook our carry holster.

No kids, so this has worked for us for the past 35 years. If we had kids, we would have looked into getting a Gun Vault type system (or similar brand). All other guns are locked in the safe.

I have a dedicated P320 for bedside duty. Its in a GunVault handgun safe on the floor beside the head of my side of the bed.

Benelli SuperNova clipped to the rail of the bed.

When home, I use the nightstand drawer, next to me. It's full of jumk and doesn't closem makng a shelf. Pistols and the spare magazine sit on top. I keep it just out of reach. I don't want to be picking it up when not awake enough to think and act. I also keep the pistols covered up; I don't want them to be immediately apparent should some enter the room before I'm ready. A flashlight is close by, along with spare magazines.

And a shotgun.

on the nightstand. my kids are good (13 and 17).
they have their own guns if anyone gets past me.

I keep a handgun and a long gun and a few extra loaded mags for each in a safe under the bed.

I go to the mattress like my Italian forbearers, i.e. between the mattress and box spring with the butt exposed.