I've been re-reading Batman: No Man's Land recently, where the USA seals Gotham off as a lost cause, and it turns into a semi-feudal society. There was an interesting standoff in that, where a guy tried to mug someone with a gun, and the would-be victim said "You're bluffing, because if you did have a bullet then it would be worth more than [the item he'd get]". Archery might make more sense, particularly if you could get away with sharpened sticks rather than metal arrow-heads.
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