TFT: The Weight of Weapons (in kilograms)

[Jim Kane]

This morning I recalled a statement in either Man-to-Man, GURPS 1st ed., or a TSG Designer Notes article, that SJ felt the weight of the TFT weapons were estimated and stated as: "too high"; and therefore in designing for what would become GURPS they would actually weigh real weapons (or their rough equivalent) on a scale, in order to get the weight of the weapons more accurate in relation to the real-world.

QUESTIONS:

• Should SJ bother to bring those more accurate GURPS weapon weights into TFT, and supplant the originally listed TFT values in ITL and AM for the re-edit?
• Should the employed Unit-of-Mass be changed from Kilograms to Pounds?
• Does this matter to anyone enough to warrant changing?

Thoughts?

JK