[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']The only worse thing for survival than a gun is gold.
$2200 could feed a family of four for quite a long time.
For example, cans of chili were on sale for 84 cents a can recently. $2200 would feed four adults 2000 calories a day for 130 days. Since it is in a steel can, you can bury for six months. On the night society goes to hell, bury everything but two weeks of food. When gangs or government thugs roll up on you, let them hurriedly take your property. When they are gone for a day, dig up another week of food.
If you want to scare people off for a low price, use tannerite and thermite.
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A single gun is only going to get its user killed by overwhelming force, draw attention from government thugs looking to make examples or allow its owner to become some thief.
If something like "The Road" ever comes to fruition, there will be plenty of guns laying around once starvation and months without prescription drugs has thinned out the herd. Roaming gangs of queer cannibals won't be on the radar.[/QUOTE]
A gun also has the utility factor of giving you the ability to hunt. Which, I probably wouldn't need an AR15 for, but could use my Ruger 10/22 just fine. But I would still want something with some stopping power if I needed to use it for defense.
Sure, a .22LR will kill someone if you get a good shot (or a lot of poorly placed ones), but a headshot is one of the most difficult shots to get when you are being charged, as you just don't have the time to properly aim.
My survival plan more involves taking my weapons (firearms, etc) and all my fishing and hiking gear and heading to the woods of Missouri or Arkansas as there are a lot of small rivers, streams and lakes to fish from, and lots of ground foraging animals such as rabbits and squirrels that can easily be downed and field cleaned for eating.