User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-903543-20120531040823/@comment-1900300-20120531064319

I would think that in the FUTURE with weapons designed to send projectiles at speeds close to the speed of light a pistol can be aimed at and shoot a large target at a distance more then a few feet. Otherwise a knife would e more useful

So that claim is just ridiculous