thought experiment

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1. what would happen if we froze all assets, made money illegal? would the world progress to anarchy?

2. what if we made dangerous things illegal such as weapons? and were somehow able to enforce it?

--Baby Einstein (confused artist from Boston)

1] barter was the original value exchange system, so we'd likely either make some kinda ad-hoc money system substitute or go back to barter.
2] take a look at england which has some of the most restrictive gun AND non-gun laws, and while their gun and knife crime is lower than ours, their violent crime and property crimes are still relatively high. humans will weaponize anything they can weaponize.

1. Planned economy or primitive tribes
2. Mining companies rely on excavators and heavy trailers to become warlords. Private disputes are handled by insults, spitting, and throwing paint on doors.

Question one is too stupid to deserve an answer because you're not offering any reason to do it, and there are obvious reasons not to do it (basically you're asking 'what would happen if we destroyed the economy?'. The answer being that we would...DESTROY the economy).

Question two at least has an implied rationale...to make society safer.

The answer to the second question is ( because of the law of diminishing returns ) outlawing SOME weapons is effective but not banning all things that can be used as weapons.

In the US we allow your mama to tote an AR15. And if she goes nutso one day she can mow down fifty people at once. Where as in the UK and in China they would only allow your mama to have a big cooking knife. So if she goes nutso and goes on a similar killing spree...she is only be able to stab like ten strangers to death before the authorities take her down. But they still wouldnt be able to save those last ten people through legislative prevention by outlawing knives, bc unlike AR 15 guns knives are necessary tools for cooking and other nonviolent purposes. Since the only purpose of AR 15's is mass murder banning them doesnt hurt society in any way. But banning meat cleavers would hobble society. So you would be saving fewer lives, and doing so at a greater expense. So it wouldnt be worth it.

Gift economies are more commonly documented when dealing with cashless economies, rather than the bartering hypothesized by many economists.