Lexicon:Ammunition Shortage

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A scarred and water-damaged Mead composition notebook was found lying in a patch of tall grass outside the quarantine perimeter by Pvt. Mason Holmes, who reported it to his commanding officer, Lt. George Bradley. A team of lab technicians led by Lt. Dr. Seamus Hannity determined that the notebook was free of viral contamination, and had it sent to the archivists at the "Malton Commission" headquarters.

According to the notebook's first page, it had been looted from Marven Mall by one Mordred Geralis, a technician for the Malton Telephone Company. Some pages are missing or unintelligible, but the notebook still contains information that could be valuable to the Commission's study. It is filed in the Commission archives as "Infection: Eyewitness Account #431"


It seems to me that there were a lot more guns in Malton than there were bullets when the plague broke out. I've rummaged through my share of police station armories and mall gun stores, let me tell you, and though I'm always reasonably sure of finding a pistol or two, maybe a shotgun, I'm always hoping for a box of bullets or shotgun shells. Most of the time, I have to empty the clip on a loaded weapon if I want any ammo.

See, that's another one of those things I just don't get about Malton. A few years ago, all the gun stores started to close up when the city council passed that weapons bill. Crime has never been much of a problem, so I don't know why they banned everything that has more oomph than a shotgun...

My brother-in-law is one of those paranoid libertarian types. He once told me that the cops were stockpiling guns, and that the new law was just paving the way for them to oppress us once they'd weakened us enough. It sort of makes sense, given that I haven't seen a .38 round in about a month. Then again, he did get arrested for owning some kind of high-powered sniper rifle, not to mention that box of grenades he kept in the linen closet.

References - Firearms Registration Act, Police Weapons Caches

MordredMalTel 18:10, 15 January 2007 (UTC)