The Armed Citizen® protected by Smith & Wesson

A husband and wife were awakened in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of someone attempting to break down their front door.

A Houston mother left her toddlers in the back seat of her SUV while she went into a gas station, giving a would-be car thief his next easy target.

A few minutes was all one would-be car thief needed to make his move on his target, an SUV with toddlers in the back seat.

The woman’s worst fears were realized when the intruder returned one night and attempted to gain entry.

A woman who was being stalked by her husband’s male cousin defended herself with a firearm when he gained entry to her home by breaking a window with a hammer.

Two heavily hooded and masked assailants forced their way through a back door to a family home in Florida one night. One of the men began beating the father with a pistol, and the other grabbed the 11-year-old daughter.

Two children heard strange sounds while playing in their suburban Alabama home.

A 36-year-old woman in Gray’s Harbor, Wash., shot and killed a man who violated a restraining order and broke into her home.

A woman, fearing for her life after her husband beat her and ordered her into their bedroom at knifepoint, retrieved a firearm and shot and killed him.