Quote Originally Posted by ZenMonkey59 View Post
Alright then, let's say that the FF Wiki it not a reliable source of information.

Let's just look at the game itself. Show me one scene in FFVIII where someone wielding a gunblade shoots someone with it without slicing into them. Also, show me on the gunblade itself where a projectile could possible emerge from the gun.

In FFXIII, you can see that the blade folds up, and becomes a gun, with a barrel. The FFVIII gun blades contain no such feature.
I never said that the gun could fire independent of slashing an enemy... However, it's basic gun mechanics. You cannot have a gun that fires a bullet, even at a hard surface without discharging a bullet. The shell would have to go somewhere because you cannot repeatedly fire the same bullet and without somewhere for the energy to release, the explosion you see would be the weapon itself exploding and becoming a worthless heap of metal. A bullet has to come out of the thing