User blog comment:Postapocfan1999/Joel (The Last of Us) vs Bill (Left 4 dead 1)/@comment-10190509-20130714035455/@comment-72.35.125.31-20130715191646

Bulls12345,

You said buttstroking,Heehee. That sounds dirty.

Oh, come on somebody had to say it.

All jokes aside.

Sergei is right in calling it improvised. Whether it is actually practised with in certain forms of close quarters combat or not doesn't negate that a fire arm used this way is still an improvised striking weapon. Think about it their are forms of self defense that teach the use of keys and hand bags as weapons. Does that mean purses are not improvised melee?

Its should also be mentioned that your line of reasoning seems to be dependent on the combatent having learned the proper way/art of using his rifle or pistol as a striking weapon.

Regardless really, fire arms were not designed for use as melee weapons. So doing so or using them as such would be using them in a improvised manner. I could design a whole martial art around a shovel. Would that make the shovel not an improvised weapon?