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Well, ok
Let me be a bit more clear.
If, hypothetically, Romero's Dawn of the Dead scenario happened.
So, zombie holocaust scenario.
Zombies spread across the globe (cause of the plague is unknown), and essentially urban areas are totally fucked within a week or so.
Now, ammo is going to get expended in enormous quantities in this early period, people blasting undead on all sides like no tomorrow. Now, obviously survivors are going to move out of highly populated areas so presumably there's going to be less ammo out in the countryside than in the cities. Let us presume that military bases and bunkers are pretty much overrun or locked down.
Now, at this point, I believe ammo is going to become pretty scarce, and basically people are going to have to scavenge for it.
Obviously anarchic, post zombie society is going to be rife with violence: murder, robbery, organised banditry, plus the continuing threat of roaming packs of zombies.
Now, you could maintain a gun for a while I presume, but don't you need gun oil, blah blah etc to do so?
Also, you also could reload your own ammo (does this mean reusing the casings?) but essentially people need gunpowder and whose going to be making that?
Now people would be out there who would know the recipe for gunpowder even, but getting the ingredients would be pretty low on the list of priorities. Food and shelter are going to be the number one concerns, but in a world of roaming zombie hordes, and heavily armed, highly mobile bandits, something tells me that just an abandoned house wouldn't do in the long term.
So ok, with people busting off a fair amount of rounds in Mad Max style banditry, plus zombie hunting etc, how long would the ammo last? I mean fuel wouldn't exactly go far something tells me, but after that I suppose people would still be shooting at each other on foot or horses.
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