User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Weapons Guide (Basics)/@comment-24260323-20140215234528/@comment-24260323-20140216060314

Good point, but then again if we look at Professor Port's "Blunderaxe" based on appearance alone, it's clearly a non-transforming freaking muzzle-loaded Blunderbuss with axe blades attached to it and judging from past as a Hunter, it can be comparable to "modern" weapons of the RWBYverse even though the Blunderbuss is clearly outdated in our reality when compared to our modern weapons. And that's only assuming that it wasn't a relic from The War. If it was a weapon from The War, and can still be used effectively in the modern RWBYverse, it raises the question as to why arms development kept advancing even though their current weapons were effective enough after The War.