Given the relative practicality of disruptions of various types there were a ton of sensible things you could do for a few hundred dollars that weren’t really wasted money anyway. You didn’t need to fill rooms and load up on the automatic weapons and ammunition.

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decimalenough 8 months ago | parent [-]

This is such a US thing. A rifle for hunting and self-defense, sure. Piles of fully automatic AK-47s that chew through 600 rounds per minute, not much.

And the old trope about ammo becoming currency, has this ever actually been a thing anywhere?

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pjc50 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

There's an interesting paper from WW2 about the shadow economy of a prisoner of war camp, fuelled by imports of Red Cross humanitarian parcels. Cigarettes became currency even among non-smokers. I'm not sure what the equivalent goods would be now.

	▲	decimalenough 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Cans of tuna serve the same purpose in many jails.

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ghaff 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I was being somewhat sarcastic and hyperbolic. Fully automatic weapons aren’t even legally sold.