Well yeah there is that Arthur C. Clarke's third law "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I mean what good is having to have a long chant to throw a fireball 50 yards and blow someone up when you can pull a trigger and fire a recoilless rifle and blow someone up from 900 yards.[hider=hint] It's portability and concealment, a recoilless rifle is bulky and heavy and loud. People will notice that. On the other hand with the fireball, you can do damage by mere speech and some bodily motion.[/hider]

In this case Chris just has a great many things that is large, loud, dangerous and red.