are gunblades plausible

[Gerazzi]

They have already existed and anyone who said otherwise is provably lazy.

 

[johnman]

They existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_sword

Why does everyone seem to miss this post.

THEY EXISTED

Exactly! All over the world!
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[Agent Larkin]

They existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_sword

Why does everyone seem to miss this post.

THEY EXISTED

No one ever pays attention to individual posts.

OT Im a bit of a history of weapons expert and less then two feet away from me is a book with all sorts of combination weapons in it. I can tell you now the gun-blades get their asses kicked by Gun mace's.

I think I have that book too.

I tried to find a picture of a gun mace, but google image search kept coming up with guns that shoot mace.

The best I could get.

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

I remember seeing a historical sword somewhere from the age of gunpowder, that was mostly a sword, with a tiny little flintlock attached. It was on the side near the grip. I suppose if the duel was going bad, you could make the straight attack a little more lethal. Small calibre though, but good to injure and bolt off the ship or down the alley I imagine.

Here are a few I found. Who said nobles were idiots?
http://www.aurorahistoryboutique.com/C000106.htm
http://www.thesteelsource.com/html/d1204.htm

And after a while wiki had a large article on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_sword

 

[hagaya]

Nothing like shooting a generic bad-guy in the face and then stabbing their partner with a searing hot blade.

/FF is crap.

Ah yes, the burning intestines of my adversary and a bullet in his friend's head. Truly a way to counter a double team.

Also, while the a few iterations are bad, Final Fantasy in general isn't crap, and I don't think you know what the slash in front of that line is supposed to mean. It's Html and it's supposed to mean the end of something.

 

[Scarecrow38]

Melee weapons are useless nowadays. Any situation where a melee weapon would be required would either 1) be fulfilled equally using a pistol or 2) it would be such close combat that anything larger than a knife would be a disadvantage.

 

[Dangerious P. Cats]

They existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_sword

Why does everyone seem to miss this post.

THEY EXISTED

No one ever pays attention to individual posts.

OT Im a bit of a history of weapons expert and less then two feet away from me is a book with all sorts of combination weapons in it. I can tell you now the gun-blades get their asses kicked by Gun mace's.

There is a musket/halbard combo, though this seems to be the leaste popular of the gun/blades. Most of what's been found seems to have been expriments, the only Gun/melee combination to take off was the bayonet, presumably because it's the only one that actually produced a decent weapon system (provided you train people to use it). In spite of how many expriments exist most seem to have failed (the funniest being a buckler/lanturn combination which reputedly spilt hot lamp oil onto people where being used). I suspect that more than being poor guns many were exceedingly poor melee waepons given the extra weight and difficulty of balancing. The U.S navy issued a small number of pistol cutlasses in 1838, though they never brought more that 150 but continued issuing normal cutlasses for a few more decades.

 

[sallene]

A gun blade would not be practical. It would be more practical to just have a pistol and sword so you can use the pistol at range and then sword up close. Having them both together would be unwieldy

 

[XJ-0461]

Who wants to waste time with a gunblade. Lets get working on a fricking lightsaber!

Most sensible thing I've heard all day.

 

[EzraPound]

Noone would make them, since modern wars just consist of ho-hum soldiers shooting at each other from afar until someone folds.

 

[a930]

Would it still be considered a gunblade if you were to take a knife and put it on the handle end of a pistol, blade point facing down. So if your were at close range instead of pistol whipping someone you would end up stabbing them.

 

[FrankDux]

They are plausible in that you could attach them, but I have no idea why you'd ever want them. A bayonet could work well enough and a whole blade would just make the gun too heavy and dangerous to use.

 

[Fursnake]

Every gunblade depicted in the FF games are not plausible, but they were kinda cool hehe. And every huge ass sword with the girder and jet-plane-wing sized blades would be 200% implausible as well, especially when seeing a scrawny dork like Cloud weilding one....and the swords look kinda stupid to boot.

 

[AlphaOmega]

We need them, else our Gundams wont be complete.

 

[Fursnake]

We need them, else our Gundams wont be complete.

Hey, I am all for Gundam's (that is mechanized robot suit thingees) weilding huge ass swords and giant gunblade thingees, just not people...unless by people we are referring to superhumans. And then maybe not eve so.

 

[sms_117b]

More than likely, extend the barrel along the back side of a straight backed falchion styled blade, along with that you would have to widen the blade to encompass the barrel. The handle would be most problematic, a gun type handle would render the blade practically useless however a sword based blade would make the gun harder to use, so it would have to be angled between the two, more towards the sword so it would be most effective. However impracticable it is, it's still awesome, and a few designs are in my sketch pad, I want one.