I think Rusty had a solution for this as you have to now buy your weapons. The topic was just bumped?
Well, it's to try and get rid of DMers who come just to kill. They wouldn't bother buying the guns themselves.
I don't really think that new players would bother saving up their money to DM. If they have the patience to eve do that, by that time, they would have already become addicted to Argonath and its RP.