[quote=TheUnknowable]
I think bullets would be the one thing left, at least in military calibers. The US military currently has huge stockpiles of ammo, and around here civilians have good sized piles too. The salvage levels you find in the wastes, though, are what I'd expect after 10-20 years, not 200+. By this time we should be producing practically everything.
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Even after 200+ years there's not many societies left proven to be ammo producers. The only big places capable of producing ammo on a large scale are the NCR, Brotherhood of Steel, and The Pitt. The Enclave would rank but they're sort of not a force anymore.

But after two-hundred years all the ammo should be spent or lost. After two-hundred years the world-wide Chernobyl should have ended. But DC still looks like Hiroshima.

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Vanilla game standards dictate the world is complete shit and there's only a handful of societies that can produce anything of any significant value.