hoo boy am I not interested in differentiating between types of guns. :shrug-outta-hecks: I've never been particularly interested in them, so when the stats are similar I don't know what to differentiate them by. Just resorting to looking several up to get a feel for how I want to equip NPCs or pregen PCs and finding this to be the most irritating part of the research I've done for the setup. What research have you had to do for games that you found particularly tedious?
This feels like a holdover from early D&D weapon-variation madness where there are 12 different kinds of compound polearm with incredibly minor & specific variations in special rules, none of which you're ever actually going to use.