Laspistol

A completely accurate depiction of how useful this is.

The Laspistol is the pistol-sized variant of the Lasgun used by the Imperial Guard. It was primarily made as a sidearm for officers, as well as what few assault troops are present in the Guard. A laspistol can be made in many different ways, ranging from your standard factory-produced pistol for average squad sergeants to artisan-crafted pistols for for Rogue Traders or Imperial Governors that are just as much a piece of art as functional weapons.

Virtually all Imperial Guard officers (aside from Commissars, who generally prefer Bolt Pistols), combat personnel, and assault troops who can't get access to shinier bits like plasma or bolt pistols will pretty much be armed with this pistol since it's fuckeasy to make, maintain, use, and die with. Expecially the latter. The laspistol lacks the range of the lasgun but when in range it has the same effect as the lasgun so basically if the Lasgun is a flash light, the Laspistol is your pocket light.

But this is all a big fat lie - real Imperial Guard assault troops, like Krieg combat engineers, prefer shotguns to laspistols, because they do not hold illusions about their close combat capabilities. And because a boomstick is a fucking manly weapon, approved by Colonel "I kick Chaos Terminators in the balls for fun" Straken.

Of course, like the lasgun, a laspistol is quite capable of shooting through a modern-day concrete wall or penetrate a civilian car in one shot and dealing a similar amount of damage as a modern days high-caliber revolver/pistol or an SMG butst. At lest it have the same stats as the Autopistol and Stab-pistol which are a Glock Desert Eagle and mini-UZI IN SPACE much like and Autogun is a AK-47 IN SPACE.

So remember, the pistol is actually quite powerful by our standards, it's just that it's in a setting where the standards are guns loaded with miniature rockets for ammunition, lightweight guns that fire super-heated bolts of energy capable of penetrating heavy armor as if it were wet tissue paper, guns capable of disintegrating anything that it's fired at, literally recoiless guns that are capable of sending out a flurry of jagged disks capable of severing limbs, or somewhere along those lines.

See Also

• Commissar - The famous users of the laspistol Bolt pistol, which they use to motivate their troops.
• Lasgun - Laspistol's mommy.
• Multilaser- Laspistol's big bro.