Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-14909251-20140707051252

Shadow at Morning wrote: Another data point: It's apparently perfectly legal to throw freshmen into mortal peril as a test of their skills, with no chance of backup, unless Ozpin's bluffing.

And children as young as 15 may legally own seemingly any type of firearm, with seemingly no restrictions on caliber or capacity, potentially integrated into other types of lethal weapons, which may be openly carried about. This speaks volumes of their trust in their society's children. I wouldn't read too much into that as where I live the only thing impressive about Ruby's weapon is that it's also a scythe. I mean, I don't know if any people here have grenade launchers like Nora, but I would not be surprised if there were a few. That particular aspect is not too abnormal.