Serenity Weapons

Availability
You can’t find everything everywhere. Your average General Store on Whitefall stocks only the basic necessities of life. For pieces of pretty, you have to go to the fancy jewelry store on Persephone. You might find a gun dealer both places, but likely not sellin’ the same quality weapon. Plain common sense should speak to most things like that. You can’t just stop at one bitty little mart (or even a major triplex) and find everything you want.
Unfortunately, things get even less smooth when you have a whole ‘Verse of planets and moons to shop on. The Core worlds manufacture pretty much everything you could want, but shopping on the Core has its own associated problems (see Credits and Coinage). Most of what you find out on the Rim is secondhand, a little worn, or flat-out feh wu. Wherever the crew goes, the GM will need to know what can and can’t be found for credit, cash, or barter. To help the GM make those decisions, all of the equipment listed here has an “Availability” rating of Everywhere (E), Core Worlds (C), Rim Worlds (R), Alliance (A) or Illegal (I). Whether or not a given item is actually available where these ratings suggest it is (or where it shouldn’t be) is still up to the GM. So no hasslin’ him when he tells you the gun shop is fresh out of Iskellian sniper rifles.

Explosives
Ranged Weapons
Personal Weapons

The Black Market
Availability ratings of Everywhere, Core Worlds, and Rim Worlds are fairly self-explanatory, and it shouldn’t take no genius to find most of these things—GM willing, that is. Illegal items, now, can be a mite trickier. Sometimes dealers sell these items under the counter, but just as often not, it may be near impossible to find some of them (unless a body has contacts of a less than reputable nature). Of course, when it comes to guns and the like, some types of weapons may well be illegal just because the Alliance wants to keep them out of the hands of the general populace. That kind of illegal may be overlooked if the perp is sufficiently generous (the “10-60%-over-the-normal-price” kind of generous), dohn ma?
Frequently, you can find things on the black market that you can’t find elsewhere. ‘Course, such things can get you dead by a variety of unpleasant means. Contacts can be made for some of the cheaper wants, but the more expensive your tastes run, the more likely a major boss—maybe from one of the tongs or the Syndicate—will have his hand in the acquisition. So . . . buyer beware . . .