Talk:Blood Must Have Blood (Part 1)/@comment-5459309-20150227030457/@comment-25869525-20150227222932

I get the impression Mt Weather was meant to shelter more people, but for less time, than how it's been used in the show. As I've said in other posts, the maps we've seen, though not to scale, give me the idea that there is planty of space for well over the nearly 400 inhabitants they currently have residing there. However, they may have also not anticipated staying in there for nearly a century, maybe 5 to 10 years at most.

So, with that in mind, it's likely they only have ammunition still, because they've managed to not use it. They found other methods, like creating the Reapers, and relying on the difficulty of any invading force breaching their defenses.

Most government contingency plans focus on immediate survival, then "restoring order" as quickly as possible. They go with the expectation that anyone left alive would want the government coming back to tell them what to do and how to live.