[quote=@Dog] Can't the agency just go buy some firearms for some agents? [/quote] I just read up on it a little bit, and it looks like it's currently only law enforcement and military are allowed to carry guns. I think for something like the Akasha Agency it's certainly possible but they're in essence giving guns to civilians. It'd be a big problem if they gave them to the wrong people who were there just for the guns. It's also sort of implied in the history that they didn't need to use the guns as the iniative was successful enough even in it's early forms. That said, there's still a couple of avenues for a guns character? I might make it so that they allowed civillians to get gun licenses for self protection, especially in rural areas who likely won't have had as much protection in the early days. The other is perhaps a policeman character who transfers to the Akasha Agency as part of a new program to begin to integrate the police into the Agency. Perhaps they take like team leader and help mentor the younger agents. What kind of character are you thinking of making?