Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170714130723/@comment-26397825-20170808013441

Well, I can see a pistol being joined with a rapier if you go the Blake way of doing things; the barrel is part of the guard, when firing the gun you hold the sword upright. And you can have the sword fold back like Blake's does for a more compact gun form.

But yeah, rapiers simply aren't designed to combined with large guns well at all. I made (and RT later used something extremely similar for Ilia) a lightning rapier/whip, and I think a whip/chainsword is the best you're gonna get out of a rapier.