The “I will bury my gun before I surrender it crowd” crack me up. If you bury your gun you will never ever ever go dig it up for any reason. You might as well surrender it.
When I went to Russia in 1997, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people would tell me about the 'special garden' that great-grandpapa kept. He'd grow vegetables on 80% of it, but one area, instead of pouring water, he'd pour oil.
The implication was that he kept WWII era full-autos or bolt-actions, buried. However, we see how useful buried weapons were. The Soviet Union did not collapse because men with guns forced it to. The Soviet Union collapsed because they ran out of rubles to pay their government people or their military.