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[Cyberpunk] How exactly have guns evolved?

Tabletop and video game version. What makes a cyberpunk pistol any better than a Walmart Glock?
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All of the weaponry in the world by assumption needs to consider the advancements in technology.

A highly cyberized and armed corporation solider can easily take small firearms like it’s nothing. Even someone with the fancy equipment against someone with high quality cybernetics like the woman in Cyberpunk 2077 announcement trailer was able to take military grade bullets just by their subdermal (armor plating grafted to the skin) protecting them.

To avoid psychotic, criminal and/or violent cyborgs taking over. Weapons would need to advance to take on such threats.

Of course lower grade weapons like the Walmart example exist. Even in the game you the player can buy a $1 gun. But it won’t do much against one with even below average armor and cybernetics. 

- Laser guns exist in the tabletop games and referenced in the video game
- Some fitted with incendiary, electrical, chemical and energy rounds. 
- Some have built-in homing rounds.
- Many guns can link to someone’s cybernetics, showing the user ammo count and charge level for the railgun variants.
- As mention, railguns exist. Even for basic pistols and rifles.
- This without mentioning built in weapons like wrist-mounted blades, grenades launchers and reinforced knuckles. 

Even at the base level, cyberpunk weapons are significantly more advanced than real world weapons.