User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/December 2012 Update/@comment-5918010-20130108225152/@comment-958607-20130109200953

Thode's rifle? It's a custom-built weapon that he designed and roped from Vortixx weapon designers into making for him. It has no elemental capabilities but there are small explosive charges laced into each Protosteel bullet, making them explode in a super-heated bubble. It is a weapons he chose specifically because it is a threat to Makuta, being able to incinerate their Antidermis from the explosion, but is also pretty harmful for any other target.