Why the T-1000 is Secretly More Terrifying Than We Know.

So as I was lying in bed last night, my mind does what it normally does right before I go to sleep and decide to ponder something which will inevitably cause me to stay awake for hours longer.

The topic this time was the T-1000  (from Terminator 2: Judgement Day) and it's capabilities.

In the film the T-800 tells John Connor 'The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes... Knives and Stabbing weapons.'

Now my initial question was, if it can't turn into a gun or a complex machine, then how can it replicate a human, surely a human is more complex than a pistol?

   But then I started thinking, well he is essentially like a big block of play-dough. You can make the exterior whatever shape you want, with as much aesthetic detail that you want, but on the inside it'll still just be play-dough. And the proof of this is obviously seen whenever the T-1000 get's shot, we can see his liquid insides. Mimetec Poly-alloy, if I am not mistaken, which is made from nano-robotics.
 However, this is still a massively complex feat, as colours would have to either have to be replicated via an internal database of pre-picked colours, or the nano-tech would have to somehow have to scan every shade on a possible victim and make up the new information into its own records and replicate it with the new information, Either way, the T-1000 processor must be incredibly fast, but its Skynet, so it's kinda a given.

   My next train of thought then went to his regenerative ability, because due to the nano technology, he can quickly sew himself back together. Yet as we see on two occasions, he can actually separate from himself and recall missing mass; Once when they escape the mental facility and the T-1000 latches onto back of the car (with his mighty crowbar arms!) where the Terminator shoots him off leaving a small segment of the hook attached to the car, which John throw onto the road.
And secondly, after Arnie hasta la vista's him into thousands of pieces after the T-1000 is frozen in liquid nitrogen.

   Now this means that there must be some kind of signal that travels from his CPU to the nano-bots which tells them how to act when together and when separate from the main body. More interestingly to me is that, while in the latter the T-1000 melt into puddles and form back together, in the former example the T-1000 separated claw piece actually stays in shape until he reaches it and assimilates it back into his body.
   Does this then mean that the T-1000 can, not only separate sections of his body and control them, but also have those sections maintain particular forms??

  If so, then theoretically, the T-1000 turning - at least part of himself - into a gun isn't entirely out of the question.
   What if he took, say, his hand mass and split it into the essential parts that make up a standard pistol, then sent the signal for the nano-bots to remain in those form while he assembled it. Now as the the T-800 states, the T-1000 can't mimic chemicals, but (and I'm no gun expert) isn't the only chemical compound in a gun the gunpowder in the bullets? If so, that could be easily bypassed by the T-1000 just making solid bullets and adjusting the firing mechanism.
   Now comes the scary thought.
   In the asylum getaway scene where he is shot off the car, John doesn't throw the claw piece from the car until a fair way down the road away from where the T-1000 fell. This means for it to hold it's form in the claw shape, the signal between it and the main CPU must be a considerable distance, which in turn means IF the T-1000 could make part of itself into a gun AND the bullets, then he certainly would be able to fire one of the bullets and have it maintain shape and solidarity well within range of most killshots. ...Which in turn would theoretically mean the T-1000 could shoot someone with himself.

   Even if it was totally impossible for him to create a gun, surely, using the same logic as above, he could create his arm into a crossbow and fire a bolt instead of a bullet? In fact that may even be more efficient!

But if you think that is scary, consider this.
   The T-1000 has his target within his distance. He shoots said target (with either a bullet or bolt) and the projectile becomes lodged inside the targets body. Now, even if it wasn't a kill shot (I assume it always would be considering he is a Terminator after all), a part of the T-1000 is now INSIDE the targets body. A part which can be controlled by a signal from the terminator himself. A mimetec polyalloy part which, at any time, could be turned back into liquid metal and given a signal to reshape into another deadly object!
Even if it wasn't a killshot, the T-1000 could just turn the projectile into liquid metal, seep into the targets blood stream and turn into razors or a spiked ball, killing the target from the inside out!

   And what if the only reason we didn't see him do so is because he is essentially, like, a couple days old and is only following his primary directives which don't allow for creative thought?

   I mean I could be totally wrong, but either way, the fact that the T-1000 could theoretically do all this, really make him much more of a fearsome villain.


...And that's why I was awake all night...