My advice is: a Ruger 10-22. It’s an absolutely essential, gots to have, no household should be without one, rifle.
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Well said. Excellent small game rifle (and even larger game if you can get a clean head shot) and is decent for home defense. Get you a few BX-25s (or the new BX-25 doubles) and you can put a lot of rounds on target really fast for cheap! (Well cheaper than a lot of other higher caliber ammo none of it is "Cheap" nowadays)
I managed to find a Ruger 10-22 about a month ago by searching every day. And, if you haven't read it yet, it is PINK. I found a 25 cartridge magazine for it before I found the rifle. Then, had to search every day until I found CCI Mini Mag HP for one day on CheaperThanDirt. I'm glad I have it all together now. If a bad guy comes in my house, he'll see a PINK rifle looking at him and then he won't see anything after that. I consider that my assault rifle because a bullet comes out every time I pull the trigger and can pull it 25 times before it quits.