If you want to protect your family,get rid of the gun. It's statistically much more dangerous to have a gun in the house. Children get their hands on them and shoot themselves or others,couples quarrel and one of them grabs the gun in rage,etc. If you think you need a gun in the US, it's anyway a shitty country, and you need to get out. I live in Sweden, and nobody has a gun here, it's a very safe country.