ARMORY

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Quite a lot of weapons, right? Some might wonder, why so many? Why not choose a few selected weapons and forget about the rest?

The answer to this lies within the different threats faced. And the different areas these threat are encountered.

Where do they fight? Underground (caves, sewers), cities, desert, forest, arctic, mountains or open terrain. Underground tends to limit combat range to a few meters, as targets pop up at short distances. Cities are comparable, but offer many openings for snipers and fire support. All other areas have allow even earlier engagement of the enemy. So what do you need? Long range weapons or close in weapons? Answer, both!

The second factor is unique to Section Seven. The enemies. They fall into two main categories. Humans and Demons.
Lets look at the humans first. What kind of humans? Harmless (pedophile -they can intimidate and rape children, but are helpless against adults, let alone pissed Amazons), criminals, terrorists, mercenaries, soldiers, soldier wearing body armor, army formations. You can face nearly any of these groups in every terrain, any time of the day, under any weather conditions. Most of these groups will shoot back. So they have comparable range to you. If you hit someone of them, he is likely out of the battle. So the stopping power of a single bullet is not interesting. What you want, is putting as many and accurate bullets as possible in the air. Ammo becomes critical. The lighter the ammo, the more you can transport and the less volume does it need.
Now demons. What do we have there? Low level threats, like weak demons and Vampires. For the most part they are comparable to humans, you just change the ammo to enhanced-silver. But then there are the medium and high level demons. Unlike humans you can hit them, and they keep coming. So you need heavy bullets and high rates of fire. Demons seldom use guns or range weapons of any other kind. So accuracy becomes secondary. While ammo is still very important, the natural armor many demons posses, make light ammo useless (Some demons will survive Anti-tank missiles, you think they'll care about small rounds?). After all you want to try and prevent hand-to-hand, whenever possible.

And if you add to this different scenarios, like freeing hostages/slaves/sacrifices and preventing the public from learning about the existence of the forces of evil and the Army of Light, everything gains a new dimension. If you now add personal preferences and prejudice, something very common with weapons, you see why they use so many different ones.

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I thought about adding mines and vehicles to this page. But both are more complicate to describe that weapon, and are not used very often. So I won't include them. At least not at the moment. If you look for info on them, go here.

Sources: Glock, *.mil and FAS