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SpiritedDreaming wrote: 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. Speaking of pistols and rapiers.....has anyone heard of Parthian ("Parting Shot") Rapiers?

They were kind of niche. Basically a Rapier with a Pistol concealed in the hilt. It's far more rare and exotic, and for good reason: It was poorly balanced compared to a normal Rapier, and the gun aspect was more unreliable than a normal pistol, since the extra weight made it harder to aim and old guns weren't exactly accurate.

It was still "the bane of honorable duelists" though. Even if worse than an actual gun, it was still a pistol, and good luck dodging bullets. The fact that the pistol aspect was, sometimes, not blatantly obvious only made it worse.