User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 582 - The Headless Star/@comment-11446176-20140528080608/@comment-3230060-20140529173552

everyone seems to think that Uryu's claim about only using bows is absolute. But there's 2 things that doesn't add up with that statement.

First, Uryu himself used an arrow as a sword several times. So to say that the bow is the only weapon is false by his own use of his "bow". You don't know if the others have just modified their..."arrows" or "bows" or whatever, for other purposes.

Second, when the statement was made, Uryu had a very limited working knowledge of the Quincy. He had his Grandfather, who was by all rights "old school" and his father who could care less about anything but money. He also believed he was the last Quincy so the statement may have been made not about the race as a whole, but just about him...because he IS the Quincy race in his mind.