It depends on the circumstances - but people have used firearms in self defence in their own homes in the UK and been found to have acted legally in self defence.
Tony Martin was the exception, not the rule.
The key is that to use deadly force, you must have reasonable grounds to believe at the time you use it that you, or somebody you were defending, were in danger of death or serious injury. If you are, you can use deadly force.
Names of men who have done this and been found to have acted legally:
Tony Evans
Jon Pritchett
Barrie Richards
David Kent
Kenneth Hall
Ted Newberry (although he was found to have a civil liability)
Kenneth Faulkner
Those are just cases in which guns were used - there’s quite a few others where knives were used legally in self defence.
Tony Martin’s case was not the norm - the difference in his case was that the men he shot had ceased to be a threat at the time he shot them, and he admitted that to police (if he’d been sensible, he would have claimed he was still in fear of his life, because it would have been impossible to prove otherwise - instead he admitted he wasnt’).
Ping to my 124.
(As a British citizen (dual citizen) who is licenced to own a firearm and does so when I am in England for a long period of time, I make sure I know the law on this well).
Ping to my 124.
(As a British citizen (dual citizen) who is licenced to own a firearm and does so when I am in England for a long period of time, I make sure I know the law on this well).
That's pretty much also true in Pennsylvania. Here, it's probably going to depend more on getting a sympathetic county prosecutor and it's more likely that you will.