Editing Firearms (section)

==New Rifles==
These rifles are accurate at long ranges, outpacing the sound of their firing; the bullets are effective as well, expanding in the interskeletal armor that is so common in their intended targets: [[Nobles]]..<ref>“Nobles favor a layer of something like armor, an interskeletal barrier between their skin and their muscle or bone structure.  Normal guns are meant to ricochet, their bullets move slowly, to pass into the subject and bounce around, doing grievous harm.  Few think twice of this.  But the Crown has reasons for perpetuating this standard.  Those slower, bouncing bullets aren’t so effective against the nobles.”  Bullets sink in and stop at the armor, or they bounce right out.  The noble bleeds but doesn’t stop.  They appear immortal, and enemy morale suffers.  The myth that surrounds them grows.”<br><br>I nodded.  I’d seen the Duke in battle.<br><br>“''These'' bullets penetrate that layer.  That armor helps strips the outer shell off as the bullet passes through, and what remains unfolds and expands as an umbrella might,” Mauer said.  His hand, all fingertips and thumb meeting, tapped my chest, hard, then opened up, fingers splaying.  “The final part of the projectile sometimes punches through on exit, or joins the expanded metal in complicating the efforts of doctors and staff.  Especially uncareful or hasty doctors might even do further harm to themselves, if an expanding bullet finishes expanding too near a prodding finger or working hand.” [...]“It might, if it hit hard bone, but no, it isn’t meant for ordinary people,” Mauer said.  “The guns are long range, they’re accurate, and they’re felt before they can be easily reacted to. - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/03/12 Excerpt] from [[Counting Sheep 9.17]]</ref><ref>[[Counting Sheep 9.16]]</ref> The bullets are close to hollow points in the real world

They were not as effective against later versions of nobles however.