Nice move man, I’ll be doing the same in the next few weeks. I’ll have to check the comments on this thread first to get all that Freeper know how before making the purchase.
If you can give us an update in a few months on how you went about training/lessons/safety instruction and how it worked out that would be great.
If it’s your first time, I recommend you get yourself a 12-gauge pump gun - preferably, Remington 870. For home defense it’s awesome. The very sound it makes when racking a shell into the chamber will scare off most bad guys.