I am currently sitting on around 30+ weapons just laying around on stockpile somewhere and I keep piling up more with each raid. I also have like 30.000 silver so I don't need anymore of that by selling the weapons. What I am always short of is metal because I have to rebuild defenses after raids.
So my suggestion would be to add a function to the machining table to scrap unwanted weapons into metal. Even if it's just a little from each one I think it would help a lot.
I'm bored of waiting for an industrial trader to show up.
have you tried haplo's workbenches mod?
Or use that money for industrial traders?
1. Use huge amount of silver to bribe all factions friendly
2. Sell gun stockpile
3.????
4. Profit!