As a peaceful canadian, I'll never understand americans and their guns mania...
Neither can I. However, gunblades and weapons of that sort have never been american... Bayonett rifles were British/French and longsword rifles were just an evolution of those, while shortsword pistols were Spanish/German in origin. Also, I'm not american, but I do like guns (not like a dumb american, I understand they are dangerous and don't play around with them, but the best gun users in the world all come from Italy and Greece, so that should tell you something, just check top sharpshooting rankings worldwide and it's literally only Italians/Greeks

). Weapons are cool and useful, so knowing a lot about them and being good at using them is a very important skill that prepares you for both emergencies and allows you to be good at hunting if you ever want to try it out (hunting is fun, just try it, really relaxing and then you get to eat what you kill most of the time so it's rewarding too).