Jayce Ithil · 11227
I will make a stressed note that rifling, while it STARTED to be worked on in the 15th century (Circa 1400's to 1530's), Rifled Barrels was still in developmental stages. It was not accurate. It was not common place. Many people had never heard of the science of it yet. It was not fully worked on until the MID to LATE 16th century, which Etla is still considered late 15th to very early 16th (the middle to near end of the Renaissance Period), so the technology is still considered in it's infancy. Mid to Late 16th century was when true rifling began to roll out, but it was still not a common thing until the late 19th century. Unless a character is jumping through the rift from the future where rifling -was- an everyday thing, the technology did not exist in a manner that it was available in every household, every smithy, or in every armory. So if a rifle breaks, the ability to reforge the barrel with accurate rifling grooves will likely not be possible unless the rifles owner knows how to bore the barrel themselves.
There was Lagertha, who, by the testimony of the Dane Saxo Grammaticus, 'She was a skilled Amazon, who, though a maiden, had the courage of a man and fought in front among the bravest..'So in short, hell yes woman can fight and fire guns. xD