Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20130922023313

We saw on the wall in the class room, and later being help by the professor, a relatively old looking combination shotgun (or maybe a blunderbuss)  and battle axe. One issues that I noticed is that it seems like shooting the gun would require having the blades near your face (since it was clearly a high impact weapon and it's not something you can fire with one hand at arm's length) and that wouldn't be a safe place for blades attached to a recoiling gun. And also, the trigger is mounted close the blades, so switching between holding the trigger, and the other end to swing the axe would also create a risk if self damage.

Overly lengthy analysis out of the way, the weapon is clearly in the same catagoery as Jaune's as clearly being older and less effective than say Cresent Rose or Ember Celica, so the issues above I imagine would be explained by older weapons being less effective, if you think that makes sense. And I'd also like to raise the question of what do you think the professor could do with that weapon despite its design flaws? 