[falar]

...why exactly are people worried about a weapon being seen? Have a good license. If you think the recent laws saying people can carry guns in bars and assault rifles in Target are insane, I guarantee carry laws will be even less restrictive in the 2070s. Everyone's carrying in the Sixth World.

Also, if you're that worried about it, get a Large Smuggling Compartment and Powered Breakdown to put an assault rifle in your leg for later use.

[adzling]

depends how you play at your table but in high security and richer areas that our runners operate in having anything larger than a pistol will draw instant attention from the authorities.

Trying to enter a corporate facility or posh restaurant with same will get you arrested.

But that's because our runners don't spend their time in barrens and hell-holes like Chicago, Redmond and Nairobi.

Our team still has the big guns, they just keep them in the car not on their person for walking around.

...why exactly are people worried about a weapon being seen? Have a good license. If you think the recent laws saying people can carry guns in bars and assault rifles in Target are insane, I guarantee carry laws will be even less restrictive in the 2070s. Everyone's carrying in the Sixth World.

[Facemage]

For example at least in my country, if you want to visit in the parliament as a quest, you have to go through metal detectors. I would assume that this happens also in high security areas in the sixth world. So, we can assume that visible weapons (even hidden weapons) are sometimes a real problem. Pistols offer still options (e.g. shiawaze armament puzzler) even in mad detection environments. But automatics not.

Moreover, if you need to use a guard's weapon (you have not own weapons at all), it is more probably a pistol than an assault rifle. And if I imagine a typical face in his work, pistol skill is more reliable than automatics. But this may depends on your table and campaign => it is not possible to give a  general rule which fits in all situations.

[gradivus]

And of course using the substituting skills, I'd figure that automatics could be used at -3 DP for burst firing pistols as they're similar to machine pistols and Pistols could be used at a -3 DP for Machine Pistols.