Gear: Modern vs. Magic

[Xerin]

Anything that is mana-enhanced is practically immune to ordinary damage. This makes your magical cloth armor immune to most weapon attacks in the ordinary world and why there's a HUGE demand for even the most mundane things from a Gate trip. That said, the argument of 'why don't we modernize gate items for our adventurers' is harmed by how modernized our equipment is. To mass produce the weapons we need with the precision we need, requires quite a few machines to 'touch' the bullets. And each of those machines must be mana-enhanced. And any machine used to maintain the quality of those items must also be mana-enhanced.

And while new gates showing is common, storing the amount of metal needed to make modern machines and keep the quality is often seen as inefficient especially when a Smith with a magical hammer and a good forge could make working weapons and armor of medieval quality with relatively no extra expenses.

That being said, many home-made ammo enthusiasts and several military organizations have managed to craft modern ammo for the more commonly used weapons and are often used by cops or the military. But this means that most individuals on the ground only have a single clip, or at most two, to deal with gate crashes.