Quote:I think you need to make the distinction between guns and, well, guns.
I am very interested in projection of force, and would be foolish/misguided/liberal to deny myself the posession of a firearm... or twenty.
Firearms in Fenspace are pretty strictly a niche market. Some factions - the Browncoats being the biggest one, a few of the Mil-SF groups - feel there's enough of a cultural thing involved that they're relatively easy to get in their territory. Most people don't bother, since living space is still mostly in the "shipping containers hooked together with plastic tubing" stage, and only a very small number of firearms have been properly space-proofed (which has to be hardtech, since handwavium doesn't work well with weapons).
Guns in the OP seem to indicate military-spec weapons - heavy assault rifles, grenade launchers, fun shit like that. That stuff is extremely rare - as of 2013 only Boskone and the Great Justice team have milspec hardware in any great numbers, and most of that is homebuilt.---
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