Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5495117-20130925213053/@comment-24252369-20131208001222

Myself 123 wrote: Ocean Tornado I guess you don't actually see Sonic use the guns, but still. Ah yes that is true. However, the targets of those guns were robots and other ships. In the cases of Shadow, Tails, and Eggman, they used hand-held guns and used them against living people which makes it more serious. (Although Eggman didn't actually used his; just threatened with it).

I think that's what's really being discussed here, since Eggman has used gun turrets on machines against his enemies mny times before.