Walk It Through: The Intruder at Night
A door forced at two in the morning, a homeowner with a gun, and the presumption at home.
In the middle of the night, someone forces the back door of a house. The homeowner wakes up and takes a pistol from the nightstand.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A forced entry into an occupied house at night. Force in a vehicle or a workplace, force used on someone fleeing, and a civil suit after the shooting are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.