Armand, that's not a mace, that's a baseball bat (I know, they call it a light mace). Contrary to reports in the foreign press, not everybody in the USA maintains an arsenal of firearms to protect their homes. Some have realized that a hit from pretty much any smokeless powder weapon will leave:
1) an entry wound,
2) an exit wound,
3) a really nasty hole in the wall behind the intruder and it will take forever for the insurance claim to be processed so you can get it repaired.
Besides, there's a certain visceral enjoyment you get from whacking away with a baseball bat you just can't get from a Colt or Smith & Wesson.
So, we keep baseball bats around.
B^)
tberry, the sculpt really does show tremendous skill and artistic ability. I'd rather see that skill turned to making more useful proects. Not just things like Croats for the War of the Bavarian Succession or resolving the notorious lack of mounted kettle drummers for the War of Jenkins' Ear. They could also make sappers to go with my Foreign Legion or 15th Century Byzantines. Or any of a number of other useful things.
Perhaps one of the more practical aspects of the sculpt is that before leaving home, she spent an hour putting her hair up in her special zombie fighting coiffure, so it wouldn't get in her eyes and wasn't hanging loose for zombies to grab (Available until recently at the salon at the corner, until the salon owner was eaten).
Grelber