Bullets are much, much easier to make than guns, even if you have a ghost gunner machine. Gunpowder is also pretty simple to make from scratch if you have a few

Bullets are much, much easier to make than guns, even if you have a ghost gunner machine. Gunpowder is also pretty simple to make from scratch if you have a few completely unregulated and mostly innocuous ingredients on hand. When I went to summer camp as a kid and went skeet-shooting with the other 12 year olds, we had to make our own shotgun shells to keep costs down. It took maybe 30 seconds to learn how to use the shell maker.