User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-8072-20100125004644

@Akash - The Redwallers are communists. @D2r - Vermin steal their weapons from their victims. Redwallers make their own bows and arrows, as do other woodlanders. Given that the shrews use rapiers, clearly they forge them somewhere in the Mossflower area.