If you have the means and the world hasn't fully embraced rapid fire from a magazine...
GURPS: Magic has a spell called Cornucopia which supplies unlimited quantities of ammo... the catch is you have to pull each round out one at a time and they disappear after a minute or if handled by someone else before being fired.
Energy cost to enchant is 50 times the cost of the round in G$.
So a little pouch that makes .30-40 ammo is 40 energy to make which means G$400.
Pistol ammo is cheaper, .38 ammo for your M1894 is just 10 energy and just G$100! .45 Colt is G$250.
Cornucopia's for handguns are going to be common. The G$300 cornucopia for .44-40 is going to be highly prized by the Winchester armed Sioux brave.
The Indians use magic and know how to do enchanting, why don't the Sioux make their own?
A quirk of the spell is it being based on the value of the item. .44-40 ammo is TL5 stuff and it costs G$0.60 per round in a TL5+ setting. Indians are TL0 stone age savages. The price of a round of .44-40 is doubled for each TL difference. 32 times in this case or G$19.20 per round. That's 960 energy for an Indian to make a .44-40 cornucopia. The good news is it's just G$8.25 per energy for TL0 societies who start with G$250. The bad news is that's still G$7,920 or 31.68 times the starting wealth.
They do make cornucopias, an arrow is $G2 and that's 100 energy, G$825. Steep, but bearable for a wealthy warrior.
I just realized what a forensics nightmare such rounds would be. No bullet or cartridge case remains. Maybe not even powder residue.
For the full explanation as to why 60 energy or less is G$10 per point and 61 or more energy is G$330 each, refer to GURPS: Magic p. 21.
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