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Years ago, When I was still on Active duty and deployed frequently, I had the master bed room closet door equipped with inside dead bolt Inside the closet were a 12 Ga. Loaded with 00, my Ruger P95 DC Loaded with 2 spare mags and an SKS with removable mags(not loaded but mags ready). My wife, all 5.0" 120 lbs of her had instructions if she ever heard a break in or unusual noises down stairs to grab the girls, and the phone and get in the closet, lock the deadbolt and grab the 12 ga. I taught her if the door started shaking or appeared to be opening to point the SG at the door and start firing. If she ran out of shells, grab the Ruger. We had a code word, The name I had for my jeep, that she would give to the cops over the phone as well as the location of the stashed key to the front door. We practised her getting the girls and getting barricaded. We usually started about a month before I would deploy, and would practice a couple times a week. The only time she ever came close to having to use the procedure, She was downstairs washing the carpet in the family room, All the furniture was moved against the door to the back yard. BG was running from the cops, jumped our fence and tried to get in the back door. He kept screaming at her to let him in the house. She ran and grabbed the girls, 10 and 6 at the time, gave the phone to the 10 YO, grabbed the shotgun and went back downstairs. The guy was still trying to get the back door open when she pointed the shotgun at him. She says his eyes got as big around as a plate. He turned and ran and jumped the fence again just about the time that two cruisers were coming down our street. They caught him a couple blocks down the street.