Were those weapons really Canon?

[section33]

Considering I don't think any of the villiagers even fired his rifle so there's no need for it to even be operatable this just smacks of laziness.

How hard would it really have been to chop up some replica guns to at least look alien if not high tech? They did it for the Geni afterall.

well it didn't take much effort the Genii weapons were reused props from the film Timecop.
A lot of the weapons that show up are reused props from films like he guns from blade trinity have showed up in SG1 and SGA.

[Zamboni]

What's really the problem is not why they have Earth guns, but rather the fact that there were only three very neat looking shotguns that were obviously machined, while the rest of the mod had sickles...

Seriously, there should not be so much gap between technology levels of the weapons. If some of them had shotguns, then the rest should have hand guns.

If some of them had single loading rifles, then some of them should have high power crossbows.

It's like seeing a dolphin pulling out a phaser pistol for no reason...

[Murzin]

i try to keep it along the lines of:

sga uses the weapons familiar to us so we know roughly whats supposed to happen with the weapon

they are not really supposed to be those weapons, but they function like it, and if they spent the time/money making new "style" of weapons for every culture, it would get really expensive, so they just use human ideal weapons so you the audience knows what to expect when the trigger gets pulled.

[jenks]

What's really the problem is not why they have Earth guns, but rather the fact that there were only three very neat looking shotguns that were obviously machined, while the rest of the mod had sickles...

Seriously, there should not be so much gap between technology levels of the weapons. If some of them had shotguns, then the rest should have hand guns.

If some of them had single loading rifles, then some of them should have high power crossbows.

It's like seeing a dolphin pulling out a phaser pistol for no reason...

Why? Where's the logic there?

[Zamboni]

Why? Where's the logic there?

The logic being that personal armaments evolve from less powerful to more powerful. Shotguns are much more powerful than hand guns. Therefore it's unlikely for a society to produce only 3 shotguns, no hand guns, and the rest are armed with sickles. It's too great a technological leap.

[jenks]

The logic being that personal armaments evolve from less powerful to more powerful. Shotguns are much more powerful than hand guns. Therefore it's unlikely for a society to produce only 3 shotguns, no hand guns, and the rest are armed with sickles. It's too great a technological leap.

But they're living in a pre-industrial village, a lot of them are probably farmers, surely it stands to reason that they're more likely to have shotguns than hand guns?

[Zamboni]

But they're living in a pre-industrial village, a lot of them are probably farmers, surely it stands to reason that they're more likely to have shotguns than hand guns?

Pre-industrial, yet they have the ability to smooth bore shotgun barrels, distill chemicals at sufficient quality and quantity to produce standardized shells, and enough metallurgical equipments to manufacture hair triggers?

Even humans kept using muskets for quite a while after the industrial revolution. A village of 700 with no sign of manufacturing industry can produce three modern-looking shotguns? I think not.

[jnadreth]

They may have traded for them?????

[Zamboni]

They may have traded for them?????

That seems like the only realistic explanation.

However, one has to wonder why the village elders would allow such lop-sided distribution of destructive power in his village. Three shotguns in a pre-industrialized town and everyone else has farming equipments?

That's bad political administration right there...

[Col.Foley]

The only thing that bothers me about the weapons in Icon, is the fact they had AKs, and M1s in the same unit.

[haloplayer]

Why are you guys calling those guns shotguns? There not there Rifles.