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Now, you could maintain a gun for a while I presume, but don't you need gun oil, blah blah etc to do so?
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No, any oil, animal fat, or wax will do. Cleaning can be done with said oils.
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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?
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Casings can be used around 10 times safely. If you know how to do it, you can make your own powder.
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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.
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If someguy is making gun powder, I don't think he would need to find shelter. He would be absorbed into bandit groups or other tribes that pop up.
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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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I don't think you know how much ammo is around. There is easily over a billion rounds of ammo in the US. We are still shooting stuff made in WWII