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Old 04-07-2012, 02:53 PM   #8
lexington
 
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Default Re: [HT] Statting a Firearm

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Originally Posted by Landwalker View Post
Well, that's makes sense, as the Cx4 isn't an SMG, but rather a semiautomatic carbine that happens to use a pistol-caliber round. That said, I don't expect the Cx4 to have a ½D range comparable to any proper modern rifles—it's considerably shorter even than the M1 carbine, and nowhere near anything else, but I wouldn't be shocked if it still got knocked down a bit. 260 does strike me as potentially a bit high.
Being called a pistol carbine doesn't increase its range. It doesn't fire a special kind of bullet and nothing I've found suggests that it gets the bullet moving extremely fast (which actually shouldn't alter the 1/2D range, because it won't change the Ballistic Coefficient, but does in GURPS).
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