Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
Gunblades do exist, or rather they did. They were decisively heavy and unwieldly (well essentially it was just a sword blade hanging from a rifle barrell) they got very quickly phased out for bayonetes which allowed the rifleman to wield his gun like a spear and club.
I'm aware of these but they aren't gunblades. They're merely guns with blades. They don't function the same as a gunblade from FFVIII.