A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 31 May 2012
Until your Events Phase three turns from now begins, you may target Followers in your discard pile with the Equip rulebook action.
Until the game ends, equipping is a Battle/Open action (for all players), and after the first time each turn each player attaches a card with a base Gold Cost of 5 or more from his hand, that player may draw a card.
Assuming both events are in effect, if my opponent destroys one of my followers with 0 Gold Cost (ex. Bandit Gang), I think I can reattach it to the same personnality on my next opportunity to take a battle action.
We couldn't think of a reason for it not to be correct, but as we only recently came back into the game after a hiatus of several years, we were wondering whether we had miss something about this situation which effectively shut all the ranged attacks my opponents wanted to throw at my personnality.
Ben Higgins (rules official), 31 May 2012
Assuming both events are in effect, if my opponent destroys one of my followers with 0 Gold Cost (ex. Bandit Gang), I think I can reattach it to the same personnality on my next opportunity to take a battle action.
We couldn't think of a reason for it not to be correct, but as we only recently came back into the game after a hiatus of several years, we were wondering whether we had miss something about this situation which effectively shut all the ranged attacks my opponents wanted to throw at my personnality.
Yes, with both Events having been resolved in a game, you could continually reattach a Follower who keeps getting destroyed, as long as you can continue to pay their entering play costs (which is not a problem with your example of Bandit Gang).