• Steve@communick.news
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    5 months ago

    Black market bullets would also be very expensive.
    Why sell them for 1$ when the alternative legal option is $5K?
    They’d sell for something like $4K, because why not?

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      5 months ago

      That’s not how supply cost and pricing work. Basically it would be cost of material + cost of capital spread out over life of equipment + labor costs + cost of being caught multiplied by risk of being caught + a profit margin. The risk of being caught would likely be pretty damn low so you might increase their cost by 25-50% if you’re lucky but it sure as hell will be nowhere near $4000. Demand would be different but likely not enough to matter much.