https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLdOGwU-hs
Mine isn’t reliable, sometimes the trigger won’t reset. It is a fun gun to shoot but I wouldn’t rely on it as my primary home defense weapon.
For a woman, I would recommend a nice 20 gauge pump.
The problem is that with guns in the home, particularly a home with children (young, male children in particular), you have to lock up the guns.
I have several pistols and a rifle. They are always locked up. I have them loaded, but that are in a secure locked area under pad lock and I have the key. I don’t even want my children to know that I have them as they are gun crazy like so many young children. This limits the ability to protect yourself.
I have had need in the past to quickly get my pistol when I thought I heard an intruder at the door at night. I had to get out of bed, go downstairs to my office, right next to the back door. Open the pad lock and get my pistol. Had I not had children in the home I would keep a pistol in the bedside table. That is not a real option with kids around.
In this instance, however, she had lots of time to call the police and that time would have been better spent getting her shot gun or pistol from it’s hiding place and aiming it at the perpetrators while she was on the phone.
I have a 4595TS. Larger rounds, more effective, same low price. Magazine holds only 1 round fewer.