Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-14138255-20170115184431

I think them showing them with swords, bows, spears, and guns is just showing their national weapons, when they actually had at least WWII/Korean War-Vietnam War level technology.

Plus, swords and bows and shit can still be viable in an Aura filled world. Mantle repressed creativity and individuality, perhaps inadvertently cutting them off from elite but less numerous soldiers, so compensated by arming their masses with more easier to use modern weaponry. Mistral complied with their art supression, but still had some in the center, thus allowing for a pool of well trained bowmen to justify using bows.

Qrow is probably from Mistral, but doesn't seem to be very kind to it. Perhaps his anscestors were affected heavily from the Emperor selling out the frontier provinces in favor of the capital, and the chaos of the war is probably why their clan exists in the first place, and considering what he thinks of his and Raven's clan....