Talk:Melodic Cudgel/@comment-226878-20140525031230/@comment-24523863-20140525182700

I had a similar thought but BenRG's response to my post got me thinking. Rifles do occasionally use explosive ammunition, although it isn't as common now as it was during the WWI-WWII era. I would conclude that the title of flare gun would be misleading because, as you mentioned, flare guns are not designed as weapons. It is true that they can pack quite a punch with a direct hit, but their primary purpose is to give off light as a signal, with a byprodut of a potentially destructive projectile. Inversely, Melodic Crudgel's purpose is to cause destruction with the luminecense of the projectile being the byproduct.

The main purpose of this wiki is to provide a place to compile all that is known about RWBY in an easily accessable place so anyone with a question can quickly find an answer. If someone is looking up Melodic Crudgel it is probably more useful to them to read that it's a rifle that shoots flare-like projectiles, than a flare gun followed by a lengthy explanation of how it is used as a weapon.