Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25857155-20150426213650/@comment-25396609-20150427201459

I will go ahead and point out the techical limitations of putting a sniper rifle in a staff weapon. Sniper rifles are a lot more complicated then you think, the stock alone would make it virtually impossible to use as a staff, it would be easier to make it a gravity hammer, because sniper rifles are FUCKING HEAVY. I got to hold a Barett M82 once, the damned thing weighed 30 pounds empty, and when you take it into RWBY it gets even heavier on account of the folding mechanisms, and since a sniperrifle is too short to use as a Bo-staff, it would need to extend even further. not to mention the rifle barrel is MUCH narrower than a staff, so it would need to be bulked up by thickening the walls of the barrel, that alon would almost double the weight of the gun. then you factor an internal magazine (otherwise you have to pull the magazine in order to use it as a staff) which increases th weight by probably half a pound, in order for  a sniper rifle to work as a staff, you would end up doubling or tripling the weight of an already 30 pound weapon. and I have to say, Church? not all that strong, and he's not a very proficient fighter (at least, not as far as we've seen) and staff weapons are not the easiest of tool to use.