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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1692587" data-attributes="member: 1645">Dogbrain, I'll assume you just thought that was amusing.  Obviously the analogy is quite flawed.  A modern gun is expensive, but not expensive; it's a few hundred bucks, a week's wages for the common man -- the equivalent of less than one gold piece in D&D.  And, of course, a modern gun store in the US is well protected by the modern state.Imagine Don's Guns in Africa or the Middle East, full of not just handguns and hunting rifles, but fully automatic assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, surface-to-air missiles, heavy artillery, armored fighting vehicles, and main battle tanks -- and you still don't have something as ludicrous as D&D's magic shops.  Anyone with the military might of a state will either be the state or have that power appropriated by the state.</blockquote>