For home protection your best bet is a 12 gauge shotgun. I reccomend the Mossberg 590, though there are many othe good models such as the Remington 870 and the vaunted Ithaca Deerslayer (if you can find one).
For the range, buy yourself a .22 pistol. Ruger makes a very good one.
Regardless of what you buy, practice with it as often as you can. If you have to use a weapon you are unfamiliar with in a tense situation (home defense) you are going to get hurt.
Take a firearms safety class at your local range or from your local PD before you get one.
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