Slugthrower Pistol

About the Slugthrower Pistol

Before energy weapons and long after, the slugthrower endures on the strength of a simple truth: a chemically propelled bullet does not care about deflector screens, energy shielding, or the tricks that turn a blaster bolt aside. This pistol fires solid rounds that punch through flesh with old-fashioned lethality, favored on worlds where blaster tech is scarce and by professionals who want a weapon that works when the exotic countermeasures come out. It runs on ammunition rather than a power cell, so a shooter counts rounds instead of watching a charge gauge, and its report is loud where a blaster merely hisses. Light and fast, it suits the close, dirty work of the underworld. Many an assassin has trusted a slugthrower precisely because it kills the things that a bolt cannot touch.