For my students, (who generaly are not very competent with a handgun under stressfull conditions), I advocate buying a Winchester Defender 20 guage pump action shotgun equiped with a 8 round magazine tube,a full stock and a pistol grip. When it is loaded with # 7 steel shot it is more than enough to engage any soft target that one would need to engage inside the ranges found in most homes.As a side issue, it can be fired one handed by either men or women around a baracade or over furniture ect. (without the recoil duing more harm to the shooter). Also there is the factor that the sound of loading a pump action is a sound that will freeze all but the most stupid intruder.
