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Home Defense Room Clearing: What Civilians Need to Know

Civilian homeowner moving through a dark suburban hallway at night with a weapon-mounted light on a defensive handgun, demonstrating proper home defense room clearing technique with the light illuminating a closed door ahead and cold moonlight from a window

Civilians should almost never clear their own house during a home invasion. Here’s when to barricade, when to move (rescue mission), and how to do it correctly with weapon-light technique, pieing corners, and threshold evaluation.