Thread:TheRozenQueen/@comment-25396609-20151024045038/@comment-25396609-20151024052457

The ones that do use technology break all other consistency, and that is where the issue coes in. RWBY weapons are relatively consistent technologically speaking, and they all make sense in context.

A .45 caliber handgun can knock a grown man flat on his ass )firsthand experience). Ruby is using a .50 caliber sniper rifle (presumably with no recoil reduction systems) and weighs notably less than a grown man, combined with a superpower which already allows her to move much faster than a normal person. The sniper alone is more than sufficient to send her flying a fair distance when fired. folding weapon is explained in-universe by having a commonly available technology to enable it.

I concede to you on the gatling gun, although i've been assuming it fires condensed aura and the gun itself is mostly for show.

Whether something makes sense is a matter of internal consistency, whether it breaks the setting. In MH the weapons are ridiculously huge (because yo uare fighting ridiculously huge creatures and need a BFS) and, as you said, a majority are low-tech. The ones which are not low tech, however, are vastly superior technologically to the normal ones.

also the bowgun thing is just.... it loses so many logical credibility points to the series as a wholethat it makes my head hurt.