"Hardly; we're better than that. Even humans use cannons, and that's just a cannon you can hold. We've figured out how to load a specially designed package into it, and I get what you're hinting at; we curve the barrel in our cannons. But the packages are too small to be easily crafted, and the barrels of a hand-held weapon too small to apply the curvature to, properly. You're better off with a well-made crossbow, all things considered; few people have the time or the money to spend on a weapon the performs little better than a tried and true standard like that."<br/><br/>He takes a look over the designs, , figuring out how to use the device and browse the article with ease, grumbling softly to himself. "They're good designs, certainly. Some refinements on our techniques that I approve of. But the core problem still stands; getting the... 'rifling' as this calls it, clean enough that it doesn't misfire. You're asking a lot, even from a master."