The small handgun

I'm looking at you little 5mm handgun.

How many time have you seen a gun like BudgetArms C-13 used as a handgun, even a secondary one ... or emergency ... or whatever. Not much I believe.

One of the problems it's Cyberpunk 2020 armors being a little bit overpowered,in fact it's not hard to see people halving armor SP (a rule I myself have applied more than one time).

But even shooting against someone unarmored it's not going to do a lot of damage, unless you point it between the eyes. And even there it will hardly kill anyone.

There are inventive ways to use small handguns. One of my personal uses (in game of course) was a hidden gun in a flesh pocket packed with acid ammunition to soften hard targets.

Sadly small caliber guns cannot be used with Chromebook weapon modification for militech 25 pistol grenades (image on right is based on this). Which is a shame, it would be ironic to pack HEP ammunition with such a small pistol and to blow up a heavy cyborg with it.

Well ... I suppose small caliber is relegated to specific targeting and special ammunition. A shame really.

It's a shame because there are a series of implants that utilize small caliber ammunition. And ... to be sincere, are quite useless. Well, not useless at all, but only useful in certain specific context.

Let's look at One-shoot special from Dynalar Techonolgies series "Digits". You have only one shot (unless you have more than one finger installed), so we have to make it count.

From all ammunition, Acid, API and Fragmentation Flechette seems to be the more dangerous, but still won't make your day ... maybe you could use it to break a lock, blow someone eye or some thing like this. Still ... missed opportunity.

Of course I could make some special ammunition, but it would feel cheap ...