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* In ''Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty'', you will never find ammo for American guns. In fact, you'll never find ammo for anything but the German MP-45. Enjoy playing the whole game having to use the one crappy SMG for everything.
** No, you can actually find American made weapons. They aren't used by the Germans (The MP-50 is by far the most used weapon), but they are lying around all over the place. This troper played the mission in the White Tower of London solely with American weapons by picking up American weapons lying around. [[Blatant Item Placement|Why they're there is anyone's guess.]]
* Used in the [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[First-Person Shooter]] ''[[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior]]''. Which is odd, considering that the Tau are supposed to have the ''strongest'' basic weapons in the universe on table, but there's not much ammo. This lasts basically up until you get the [[Gatling Good|Burst Cannon]], which competes through [[More Dakka|sheer rate of fire]], and the [[
* You can occasionally find a weapon in a box in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', but the most prevalent source (especially for some of the better guns) was enemy units. Therefore, it's usually better to use a GUN weapon if you're following the dark path and a Black Arms weapon if you're following the hero path. Neutral path? Just use the best weapon possible.
* Played with in ''[[Mass Effect]]''. In the beginning, your starting equipment is the absolute worst possible in the game and will immediately be replaced by whatever you find in the first mission. Even after that, [[Random Drop]]s will on average be superior to equipment you can buy yourself at the time. But after fulfilling the required conditions the [[Infinity+1 Sword|best weapons]] can only be bought in stores.
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** Another reason was that the stock on the early M-16 had a tendency to break when used to strike something. This was because of the polymer materials used in it. The AK, on the other hand, had a solid piece of wood for a stock. And even if you managed to break that, all you needed to fix it was an appropriate piece of wood.
*** The stock for the M-16 actually had the buffer tube running through it, which is a critical part of the mechanism. You break the tube, or bend it, and your gun won't fire. Offset by the fact that the AK-47 sounded different from the M-16, and had a tendency to draw friendly mortar fire as a result.
* German soldiers tended to prefer the Mosin Nagant over the Karabiner 98K if they had the option.
** German doctrine, unlike most forces, actually accepted use of captured arms. In general grabbing an SMG or semi-auto was preferable to the bolt action you had.
** Conversely the MP-40 was a popular prize for British soldiers, aided by the fact that their issued Sten Guns used the same ammo and magazines but were otherwise [[Shur Fine Guns|cheaply made pieces of junk]].▼
▲** Conversely the MP-40 was a popular prize for British soldiers, aided by the fact that their issued Sten Guns used the same ammo but were otherwise [[Shur Fine Guns|cheaply made pieces of junk]]
** In addition, German soldiers in WWII preferred US grenades because they were less bulky, while US soldiers preferred German stick grenades because they could be thrown farther, helping to keep the US soldiers out of harm's way.
* Invoked by the Liberator pistol. A single shot pistol that would take longer to reload than manufacture and breaks before firing 50 rounds, but small enough to easily conceal and ambush a guy to shoot him in the back and steal his not shit gun. By making it a horrible weapon it ensured that the enemy would not be able to use them for anything when they captured a few from random airdrops<ref>though liberators were ultimately never airdropped as intended as any bomber time would be better spent dropping real bombs, they were given away by US operatives in Greece and presumably used as intended</ref> before rebels got them.
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