Gun Control thread (merged many)

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Well, it's difficult to put a longbow, hand axe or claymore into a holster under your jacket. Furthermore they probably require more training than a gun that you basically just align with your target and then squeeze the trigger.
Or in short, those weapons aren't very handy and aren't up to date so no one wants to use them.

Going off off off off topic for a moment, what's the German/Germanic equivilent of the English Longbowman in terms of a sort of symbolic Germanic weapon/unit? The Teutonic knight?