had a similar situation where someone broke into my place, heard noise on the other side of the bedroom door,he was holding the door closed so i said you better let go of the door or i will start shooting thru it, opened the door and there he was about 12 feet away with some of my belongings on the floor next to him, i told him to not move and had him at gun point, don't move and he took a step towards me and i dropped the safety, it was a 1911 45, i told him i just disengaged the safety and i will shoot him if he takes one more step, here is the crazy part he started yelling go on shoot me i don't care, go on shoot, then he calmed down turned around and left, i knew the kid so i called the police put my pistol away and 10 minutes later they came, they did there job of checking the place asking lots of questions etc.. what a crazy experience, i was very composed and luckily i did not have to pull the trigger. this was the 4th time i have pulled my pistol out in self defense. they finally caught and arrested him