My reasons for CCW while at home go w-a-y back as a kid, born in mid 50's, before CCW permits come to be.
Hi-Risk industry and I and mine were targets for being kidnapped.
Home guns, were similar to CCW guns.
Exceptions existed, like me CCW-ing a Beretta Minx at age 6 and Jetfire about age 8.
I CCW-ed a Model 36 or Model 10 starting around age 13, after I stopped an immediate threat against 3, armed, adults that busted down the front door.
Now in that incident, I had 3 younger kids under my charge. I had handy two .22 revolvers and one single shot shotgun.
Time did NOT allow me to gain access to a Model 10 or Repeating Shotgun.
Life happens fast, and I had to work fast in getting kids into safer areas of the house.
NO known gun schools, no training facilities back in them days.
What I did have was private lessons from Military , and Law Enforcement types.
I was raised with Gunny's and Rangers and Veterns of previous wars that had BTDT, and some in countries where getting across checkpoints meant...
Now competed with rifles, and handguns first, still in Elementary School, shotguns and competing next.
We shot "lessons" akin to what 3 Gunners before 3 Gun, IDPA, IPSC, do now, before they come to be.
Long guns are great...
My concern has always been entering, exiting a structure and answering the door.
This includes, getting to and from another structure, be it on foot or vehicle.
House I used for business; Pro Thugs bypassed alarm, locks, and I show up and turn off alarm, unlock door and I have a .357 Revolver in my face.
A lot of damn good the long guns inside are going to do me.
I am in a Parking Deck, I get in the vehicle an the door glass right behind where I am in the drivers seat explodes, from being shot out...
I am on the highway, doing 70 mph and being shot at, bumped, rammed and trying to be run off the road...I mean rap it up to over 100 mph, and doing all the defensive lessons and I have multiple cars that want me stopped.
My car gun was a .44 mag with full house loads. I "got them off my butt!"
In an Apt, Condo , even hotels I have had people walk in while I was taking a shower...
I am nobody, all I have are my experiences and observations, just sometimes a Duplicate or 4 of something is nice, and sometimes you cannot get to a long gun.
My lessons also were/are about those times where you cannot have a gun, or knife.
So for the $750 one might spend on a AR, or Nicer Shotgun, I fixed up a Lady Sales Rep, that lives alone, travels alone, and stays in hotels and motels, two Used 3" revolvers, and one used Shotgun, she carries into hotel , motel rooms, and can use at home.
This includes holsters, lockable Simplex box, ammo, speed loaders, speed strips and some other "tools of the road".
The Shotgun is a double barrel, for the same reason Awerbuck uses one, some areas in the US are less gun friendly than others.
She has two more revolvers coming, akin to what she has now.
She is "starting out" on this Sales Rep bit, and she may have as much as $1 million in mdse.
Bonded and Insured, they can have the mdse, still the concerns are she is a attractive lady, and using her to gain access to other valuables is real.
I have shared with Jeff White, and some others face to face on some of this.
Guns, knives are fine and dandy, still a LOT of the lessons I was brought up with, have to do with non-firearm matters.
Prevention, reading people, places and things and the like.
There are times, with metal detectors, wands, being patted down - one is NOT going to have anything but the brain, mindset, and senses to use as a weapon.
I'm probably wrong - again...