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The thing you buy more of than the gun that fires it.
means Short for ammunition — the bullets, shells, or other projectiles a weapon needs to actually do anything.
from A 20th-century clipping of 'ammunition,' which came through French munition from Latin munire, 'to fortify, to defend.' Soldiers, being soldiers, shortened it for speed — the same instinct that turns 'reconnaissance' into 'recon.'
- origin
- short for ammunition, itself from French la munition
- economics
- prices spike every election cycle, like clockwork
- metaphor use
- now means evidence in any argument, not just war
- storage rule
- cool, dry, dark; heat degrades gunpowder over years