User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/It's also a gun! -Team CRDL/@comment-24631732-20140613224732/@comment-108.38.193.5-20140614033104

That seems to imply that you can't get into Beacon without your weapon being a gun. I can see them working together to take down the DeathStalker, I mean Team JNPR basically pushed it off a cliff to fully kill it. They don't need their weapons to have a gun in it to be good, as long as they're skilled with them the could get into Beacon. They just have a disadvantage of mainly being melee-based.