Gauss pistol (Wastelanders)

The Gauss pistol is a ranged weapon .
==Background==
==Characteristics==
The Gauss pistol is a powerful sidearm with superior range and ammo capacity to other weapons of its class. Like the larger Gauss rifle, the Gauss pistol can be charged to fire a more powerful round. When crafted, Gauss pistols use legendary modules, becoming legendary weapons with randomly determined effects.
As with other weapons only available after the main questline of Wastelanders, Gauss pistols cannot be traded, dropped, or sold to vendors.
===Crafting===
Gauss pistols are always crafted at the maximum level available to the player character. The weapon will be a one-star, two-star, or three-star legendary weapon with randomly determined effects.
===Weapon modifications===
Weapon mods can only be crafted if the corresponding plan is known. Mod plans for the Gauss pistol are bought from Regs for gold bullion and cannot be learned from scrapping Gauss pistols.
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==Locations==
* The Gauss pistol can be crafted at a weapons workbench if the corresponding plan is known. The plan can either be bought from Regs for 250 gold bullion after the completion of the main questline for the settlers or raiders or can be bought from Minerva for the same price prior to finishing the Wastelanders main questline.
* Once the plan is known, Gauss pistols may be found as legendary weapons, earned either as quest rewards or obtained via crafting.
==Notes==
* The Gauss pistol is counted as both a ballistic and energy weapon, so it is affected by small guns bobblehead and energy weapons bobblehead, as well as corresponding magazines.
* The Gauss pistol is affected by the Grounded mutation.
* Gauss pistols cannot be traded nor sold. 
* Crafting a Gauss pistol will consume legendary modules and as such will always produce a legendary variant.
==Behind the scenes==
* Joon Choi concepted the weapon and its modifications,Joon Choi Fallout 76 concepts recreating the Gauss pistol from Fallout 2.Joon Choi Gauss pistol recreation Its modifications included an accelerator barrel, super charger barrel, and a shielded barrel.Joon Choi Gauss pistol barrel modifications Its drum magazine was also designed to spin when ejecting 2mm electromagnetic cartridge rounds, with a red dot indicating when it was full and when it needed reloading.Joon Choi Gauss pistol drum magazine concept
* The Gauss minigun, pistol, and shotgun were designed as weapons made by a single manufacturer.Tumblr, collected by JCB2077
==Gallery==
FO76WL Gauss pistol static barrel.png|Aligned short barrel
FO76WL Gauss pistol suppressed barrel.png|Suppressed barrel
FO76WL Gauss pistol drum magazine.png|Drum magazine
FO76WL Gauss pistol energy barrel.png|Energy barrel
FO76WL Gauss pistol grenade magazine.png|Grenade magazine (unused)
FO76_PPK12_Gauss_pistol.png|Promotional render
==References==
Non-game
Category:Wastelanders weapons