Seems like a lowball offer.
Yes but doing so is a lot more complicated and error-prone. Most people don't have metal smithing equipment at home, or the space or training to use it to manufacture a useful gun. Plus operating an unregistered firearm is illegal in most places.
By contrast you can just buy an ammo reload kit with all the necessary tools. You can do this at a dining table or a desk or a kitchen counter, it doesn't take a lot of space, and you can learn to do it in an afternoon. And it's legal in the US to own those kits and pack your own ammo, and you don't need a license to reload for personal use, only for distributing.
"800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one..."
Yeah but can we talk about time?
Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done better than handing down our present system. It is like a set of trapezoidal building blocks, with no vertical or horizontal surfaces, like a language in which the simplest thought demands ornate constructions, useless particles and lengthy circumlocutions. Unlike the more successful patterns of language and science, which enable us to face experience boldly or at least level-headedly, our system of temporal calculation silently and persistently encourages our terror of time.
...It is as though architects had to measure length in feet, width in meters and height in ells; as though basic instruction manuals demanded a knowledge of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. …
—Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living.
As quoted in the GNU coreurils documentation for date input formats
I got yer lead prescription right here, pal. You won't even have to go to the doctor to get your shots. Take two and call me in the morning.
Hmm, lots of gun nuts make their own ammo though...
Don't ask questions that you don't want to know the answer to.
Tell my wife... I said... hello...
No, you're right of course - it necessitates a human driver. True awareness and decision making are not possible with our current level of technology.
Er, so this woman is... spending a lot of time thinking about trans kids undressing? is that the takeaway?
That's weird. She's weird.