On 6 May 2016 at 15:18, Grimmund wrote:

> You could probably improve that quite a bit.  If you intended it for
> shipboard, close quarters use, you could likely change the propellant
> to get something that had hit Vmax within 3 meters.  

Even a 3m burnout is a bit long for a pistol, especially one you know will be used inside
a structure like a spaceship. A good deal of combat pistol shooting occurs inside that
range.

I prefer the way GURPS treats them - as a platform for (often guided) projectiles
intended for use at long range. The difference between the pistol and rifle is ammo
capacity and the quality of the sighting system.