The "BEST" home defense weapon threads have been done to death... I was really interested in what the reality of what people would grab at this moment in a home defense situation.
If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.
We fight like we train and practice makes perfect. And in my book, deliberate practice (fast point shooting at multiple targets) makes more perfect.
Before retirement, when we lived in high crime city with gang banger home invasions, we were armed at all times (Wife carried two pistols) in and around the house/yard as prison inmates were being paroled to empty house across the street (This was 2008-2014 when there were a lot of houses that were squatted by multiple occupants/families) with several multi-police car busts each week ... 14 patrol cars pulled up as we drove off in our moving van in 2014.
In anticipation of multiple gang bangers armed with pistols/AKs, we went from pistol/shotgun to pistols/multiple magazines on tactical vest set up with ARs (.223 then .300 BLK) to end up with 3 guard dogs and 180 feet of welded powder coated metal fencing around the property with metal security doors.
Now retired at our retirement property at the end of quiet private road surrounded by several other properties with acreages, our dogs alert to different noise made by tires/cars (They don't bark at neighbors' cars/trucks) so our door being kicked in would be very out of ordinary.
What are the chances of gang bangers kicking in our front door? Very low.
Could gang bangers looking for somebody who owes them drug money across the state kick in the wrong door? Perhaps.
For most situations, our dogs alert to any strangers and when I confront the "lost" travelers (Google map shows the private road going through but it doesn't in real life), they promptly exit out the private road if they were "scoping out/casing" the neighborhood. I make sure to tell them that I am retired and I am home ALL THE TIME with my barking dogs.
But I train with fast point shooting drills using pistols and PCCs/ARs ... just in case. I have bought CMMG 22LR conversion bolts for my ARs and Advantage Arms 22LR slide kit for my Glock 22 so I can run these fast shooting drills at multiple targets using the same firearms/triggers for that exact purpose ... just in case ... some gang banger gets the wrong house.