system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Firefly] Why do some folk on the outer worlds use such outdated weaponry? Where did they get those guns in the first place?
gpt
If you want laser weapons you need clean rooms, high quality silicon foundries, high-tech assembly lines for high-density batteries and perfectly formed lenses. A laser weapon requires a massive technological infrastructure to build.

A slug-thrower gun can be made with 1800s grade technology, which even the backwoods moons have. People with bullet-shooting guns generally work around or behind the Alliance and will only face other bullet-shooting weapons, so there's no real need to get a far more expensive weapon with far, far more expensive ammunition in the form of a laser gun and its batteries. It's just not worth it when a regular gun will do just fine in the same role.