Either a shotgun with double 00 buck or a pistol with hollow tip rounds is great for home defense. But either one you want to be careful and check ur backgrounds. You have to know what possibly might be behind the wall thats behind an intruder and even behind that wall. Drywall will not stop a bullet and im sure you rather get taken for a lot of money worth of shit than shoot ur wife, daughter, son, mother, father etc cus you miss and put a round through a wall and hit one of them. Thats my only advisement. Got a buddy that had a guy break into his house he shot twice with a .40cal full metal jackets missed and hit his wife in the stomach in the other room. She lived but none the less my buddy still gets bothered by the fact he almost killed his wife. SO WATCH UR BACKGROUNDS, KNOW YOUR HOUSE!!!