A Roman lictor’s bundle of sticks is not realistically a weapon. It is a facsimile of a weapon, but you’re better off with an actual stick. The axe heads were removed within the boundaries of Rome (Well, until Sulla), and weren’t placed in a position where they were realistically used as a weapon.
Etruscan fasces may have been weapons, but Roman ones were not.
Fasces predate fascism by more than two millennia, both as weapons and as symbols.
A Roman lictor’s bundle of sticks is not realistically a weapon. It is a facsimile of a weapon, but you’re better off with an actual stick. The axe heads were removed within the boundaries of Rome (Well, until Sulla), and weren’t placed in a position where they were realistically used as a weapon. Etruscan fasces may have been weapons, but Roman ones were not.