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"Guns and ammo will be cheap. Canned food, batteries, flashlights, bandaids, pop-tarts, that's what we'll shoot each other for."

From many instances of history after disasters, yes. Those would be about the cheapest items after an economic collapse, for example. Instances of violence, probably, but sporadic and smaller than expected. Criminals will be rounded up. "WROL" is nothing more than fantasy. There's always been law and always will be, because most people want it. If they don't want it one day, they will soon enough after being awakened by the painful and uncomfortable realities of anarchy or guerrilla warfare.

Poverty, big time. Many other kinds of items would be much more in demand, and huge numbers of people would be trying to sell firearms and ammunitions for next to nothing.

Many people are fantasizing about a mythical, absolute regime of omnipresent violence, because they've lost money and/or things or see their own mortality in the near future (end of the world for them). They're hoping for some kind of fantastic rearrangement that would allow them to come out richer or in some kind of better position.

Many are fantasizing about another war between states, but leadership in every state is thoroughly socialist and evil. Even in most rural areas, folks with socialist tendencies are interspersed with truly conservative others who want to produce (as in make parts or something like that).

Many others are suffering from spooked herd syndrome. They know that some unusual changes are happening. Because of silence on the causes of those changes (all natural, don't happen very often) along with man-made global warming propaganda (smokescreen to cover for lack of knowledge about what's happening), many people are sensing some kind of worldwide, world ending disaster ahead.

They also know that many political, business and academic leaders have turned crooked and don't want to do their real duties (like getting out of the way with fees, zoning against manufacturing, etc., and letting men start small manufacturing operations all over the country). Strange reaction on the part of the spooked herd, though, wanting to get ready to play bad-guy soldier ("as seen on TV"), rob and murder.

I've watched lots of videos and read lots of the popular fantasies about "TEOTWAWKI," but from experience, I can tell you that nearly none of the suburban commandos would find what they expect in a situation of true anarchy. What so many who've not been trained to be combat soldiers (only a very small percentage of our Army, Marines and even fewer in the Navy) believe to be tacticool is foolery. The videos with lifelong civilian hobbyists, police, former officers, service and supply personnel and others pretending fire-and-maneuver training are hard to watch. Real soldiers or well trained guerrillas would slither and slide through them like scythes through hay.

Technical skills and food production would be most important by far. But back to the topic.

If I need a couple of cases of ammo, I'm in a world of shit.

I thought that was the kinda of the point of this thread. If people are shooting at you for food and flashlights, you are indeed in a world of sh1t.

We are the most heavily-armed country in the world. Guns and ammo will be cheap.

Available and cheap are not the same thing. There was no less ammo in existence after Sandy Hook, more in fact. Fear of gun control & the desire to hoard ammo made it harder to get and more costly. I suggest to you that reaction in a more traumatic event as we are discussing will be many time greater.

If people will kill for food etc, they will kill for guns and ammo (or trade for it, still valuable).

I look at it this way. I pay a thousand dollars a year for car insurance. Every year. For that amount I can buy ammo insurance: a couple thousands of rounds each of 7.62 and 5.56. Except that I only have to do it once. Four cases of ammo doesn't take up much space. And in a best case scenario where it is never needed, you've got lots of enjoyable range time without stopping at the store to buy ammo. What do you have at the end of a year with a car insurance premium and no accidents? A new premium.

Calculate all the money we spend for all sorts of insurance that very often doesn't get used, several cases of ammo doesn't even make it on to the economic radar.