The Lowly SKS

[ArmySGT.]

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[WallShadow]

AK47 (C/V) --$100
SKS (C/V) --$250
All else being equal, you might as well buy the AK47 if you're going to stock your militia's armory.
Which leads into another question: if you are buying weapons on the open market, say, in Krakow, how many would be available of a type, assuming average success in rolls? I realize this is at the pleasure of the GM, but what should be the limiting factors in units when the item's availability is a given. One? Five? A dozen? As many as they have cash for? The last is highly unlikely considering the somewhat limited contents of the caches of the marauders in FCOK.
I guess a die roll here and there will help. Scrounging, Gunsmithing, and other skill levels could help the player sort out the wheat from the chaff--identifying weapons that would require major repair or are actually inoperable. And other givens are the rule-defined conditions (Rare, Scarce, Common, Very Common) and the locale (major city, city, town, village, open).
Sorry for thinking out loud, but I often try to anticipate problems before I am confronted with them.

[Brother in Arms]

I think they might have added an accidental 0 to the $25! Seriously...they SKS was made in the millions by the Russians, Chinese and Yugoslavians...Poland and Romanian also made thousands of them.

I can't imagine they wouldn't be being used by Reserves and Militias in Poland. Also Polish M44 Mosin Nagant and PPSH-41, PPS-43 and RPD machine gun. This would all be old stuff that was used by the polish military after WW2 but would not be frontline stuff.

BIA

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Brother in Arms

I think they might have added an accidental 0 to the $25! Seriously...they SKS was made in the millions by the Russians, Chinese and Yugoslavians...Poland and Romanian also made thousands of them.

I can't imagine they wouldn't be being used by Reserves and Militias in Poland. Also Polish M44 Mosin Nagant and PPSH-41, PPS-43 and RPD machine gun. This would all be old stuff that was used by the polish military after WW2 but would not be frontline stuff.

BIA

Brother, Sorry to disillusion you, but the PPSh, the PPS, the Moisin-Nagant are all rather along the same prices as other SMGs and Bolt-action rifles. In the Post-KaBoom world, a firearm is a firearm and therefore valuable..
What would the modern equivalent of a WWI Chauchat be, I wonder? Radom was listed or indicated on the map as one of the nuked cities: it was also a Pact armory city where weapons were manufactured (Brno in Czechoslovakia is in a similar situation). While the tools, machinery, and stocks of arms may have been slagged, what of the skilled technical personnel who may have escaped? They may be worth hunting down and setting up in a small gunsmithing colony closely allied with an ammunition source (Wojo? Or the town along the Wisla that makes reloads?)