If you are shopping for a gun safe, you don't have to spend thousands of dollars, although you can. I purchased a very nice, medium size gun safe at Sportsman's Warehouse for just $300. It gives me a place to park the guns that I'm not keeping out for an emergency. I have some trigger locks that came with various gun purchases, but I don't use them; either the gun is in the safe or it's out and ready to use.
For an emergency around the house, nothing works better than a 12 gauge pump action shotgun. The sound of the action being pumped is distinctive enough to dissuade most invaders. I had worried that my wife would need to go down to a 20 gauge, but we have found that she is very good with a 12 gauge - she can hit more clay pigeons that I can and I've been shooting all my life. (But I'm still the best shot with a rifle.)
As for other calibers, there is something to be said for "caliber consolidation" - which is to choose guns with a common caliber so it is easier to find or trade ammunition. Following that line of reasoning, you should know that the military and police use .40 caliber pistols (usually Glocks), .308 rifles for sniping (or hunting, if you're a civilian), and .223 for assault rifles (for crowd control.) For my assault rifle I chose a 5.56 NATO caliber which will also shoot a .223 - that gives me two rounds to choose from, just in case.
Ammunition and guns have become very scarce and expensive since the election back in November 2008, BUT I keep asking myself: when the dollar becomes worthless and all of my "electronic funds" (like savings accounts, CD's, money markets, stocks, bonds, retirement fund, IRA, 401k) evaporate, what will I wish I had spent my money on back when I had the chance? Certainly food is at the top of the list. So are real property, vehicles, and guns and ammunition.
The attached photo is of three generations target shooting together. "The family that shoots together..."
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