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:I think it's more appropriate than a crossbow being as it does use fire at some point in the firing sequence and is a weapon, and thus is a "fire"-"arm", but being as the fire only indirectly launches the projectiles I think this is borderline acceptable. -[[User:Anonymous|Anonymous]] | :I think it's more appropriate than a crossbow being as it does use fire at some point in the firing sequence and is a weapon, and thus is a "fire"-"arm", but being as the fire only indirectly launches the projectiles I think this is borderline acceptable. -[[User:Anonymous|Anonymous]] | ||
:Ok, now you are talking about semantics between what counts as a firearm. A GUN as it were is anything like what we've come to know as a gun, a weapon that fires a projectile through a tube using explosive reaction from a powder like substance. A howitzer counts as a firearm. A Rocket launcher counts to a degree. But something like this is just a novelty. [[User:Excalibur01|Excalibur01]] 02:45, 26 October 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Is this technically a firearm? Sure it uses fire to power the steam engine but that still seems like a bit of a stretch. -Anonymous
It's does fire projectiles and is a "real world" weapon as opposed to the whole "steam punk" genre of weapons but it does fall outside of the parameters of what is listed on this web site. --Charon68 00:27, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
But it doesn't use gunpowder to fire anything. It's like making a page with crossbows. Excalibur01 01:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
- I think it's more appropriate than a crossbow being as it does use fire at some point in the firing sequence and is a weapon, and thus is a "fire"-"arm", but being as the fire only indirectly launches the projectiles I think this is borderline acceptable. -Anonymous
- Ok, now you are talking about semantics between what counts as a firearm. A GUN as it were is anything like what we've come to know as a gun, a weapon that fires a projectile through a tube using explosive reaction from a powder like substance. A howitzer counts as a firearm. A Rocket launcher counts to a degree. But something like this is just a novelty. Excalibur01 02:45, 26 October 2010 (UTC)