Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-26397825-20170703072513

Do you mean in front like you have in the drawing? In which case, the problem I first asked you about arises; if you have the barrel sitting beside the blade on the sharp side, it interferes with the slashing capabilities of the sword.

I think you're better off making the quillons into the barrel itself and having the sword stick out the top at a 90 degree angle to the way the barrel if facing. Just like Cervante's gunsword in that picture.

It allows you to have a gun, even keeps the positioning of the barrel, firing mechanism and ammunition in roughly the same places as a standard pistol/uzi type gun, and doesn't interfere with the blade at all. The blade can still collapse down and become smaller for storage or gun form if you want, as you don't always want a scimitar sticking out the top of your gun when you try to fire it.