As I've said in the past the ammunition issue is sort of weird, because while you could plausibly have black powder as a semi standardized propellant the bigger issue would be forging bullets and the guns don't act much like black powder weapons.
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I don't really see a good reason why they'd revert to black powder weapons in this setting, they're pretty clearly just using up stores of pre-existing ammunition (of which there's a lot, and which keeps for decades if stored properly)
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It's comparatively easy to manufacture if you have horses, which communities clearly do?
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But then you'd have to make new weapons from scratch to use them, or dig them up from an antiquarian - almost all modern firearms would be useless
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Couldn't you use the black powder with modern cartridges just using the inferior propellent instead of modern propellent? I mean it'd lower muzzle velocity but for at least one gun you're manufacturing non-standard ammo for on the spot anyways.
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The primary reason for the invention of so-called "smokeless powder" isn't the lack of visible smoke but the lack of particulate fouling it leaves behind (the smoke is just the part that comes out of the gun) Smokeless powder is what made the concept of an autoloader feasible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
A black powder weapon can't be semiautomatic or automatic, and it needs to be built to allow the smoke to escape and to let you clean out the chamber after every firing You can tell an old black powder revolver because of the "nipples" on the cylinder for that purpose
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how much harder is it to manufacture nitrocellulose than black powder?
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Well manufacturing black powder is so easy Chinese alchemists did it by accident trying to make medicine, whereas smokeless powder wasn't invented until the industrial era
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My understanding is that modern propellant does have a ton more chemical ingredients than the good old sulfur/saltpeter/charcoal everyone knows But it's really the precision of manufacturing that's the hard part
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Making a modern primer is a fiddly process, since the whole point is it's making a chemical mixture far more volatile than the propellant And a modern 5.56 round depends on the propellant being made with very specifically sized and shaped grains
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