I've wondered this myself, but have yet to get around to testing it. Did you hand them a fully loaded gun?

unloaded,unfortunately

Should be easy enough to trade another gun then reload the one you intend for them to have and then trade it back to them.

yea,but then i have to take the npc out somewhere to fight.I will get around to it....Right now all my npcs are locked in the base,safe except for when they shoot each other :(

If you have infinite ammo turned on, then they shouldn't need ammo to use a gun. I haven't tested this yet as I never play with infinite ammo. Seems a little to much of a cheat to me. And it means all the pre-spawned hostile survivors will always be shooting you. This way they run out of ammo and will die.

As for the basement shooting, don't give them guns so they won't shoot each other. :) If you give them butter knives or something low damage that causes bleeing wounds, then they will likely attack once, both run off to bandage and then forget about why they were attacking each other... at least until the one that's left your group because you keep them locked in the basement tries to take more food or something. :)

i dont think i have infinite ammo on,ive seen a few enemy npcs run out of ammo and run around announcing that they were searching for ammo :P Right before i shot them down :)

Ive also now seen some of my group npcs run around looking for ammo,and some taking lose ammo out of a crate.They dont seem to take boxes of ammo for some reason.

Still no idea on if these are npcs who spawned with a gun,or npcs i gave a gun to though...