Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160424135023/@comment-25396609-20160503043909

No.

But that doesn't matter; if no explanation is provided, then occam's razor applies.

Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

purely looking at the design of the weapon, and the ammunition it uses, it can be deduced that the weapon would, at best, break upon firing. This is without assumption, merely with knowledge of basic mechanics

for it to NOT explode, you have to assume that it is

A: a fictional material rather than steel

B: operated by magic

C: using a form of ammunition different from that shown alongside the weapon in-game