Stubber

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Stubbers, or stub guns, are essentially mid 20'th century guns in the 41st millennium. Needless to say, they haven't aged very well when you consider how powerful everything else is. The only thing that they have going for them is they are cheap, and they can still kill an unarmored humanoid target.

They are incredibly weak, in fact, they are the only thing that a Guardsman's paper armor will reliably stop. This should give you an indication of exactly how weak they are.

Variants

Stub Pistol

It's a basic pistol, probably much like a World War II officer's pistol, a revolver, or maybe up to a Glock. If you're in a gang on a hive world, it'll probably work pretty well because you're probably going to be shooting at other people without armor. If you're trying to shoot an Ork, even headshots might just bounce off their skull.

Stub Gun

Though not technically defined, there are probably versions of Stub guns that are bigger than pistol size and smaller than Heavy Stubbers, which likely includes semi-automatic rifles, submachineguns, and the like. Still basically mid 20th century firearms, though there are obviously more fully automatic rifles.

Heavy Stubber

It's basically a Browning M2 .50 cal Heavy Machine Gun. Unlike the smaller Stub guns, Heavy Stubbers actually contain enough mass to do similar damage to a Bolter round. These are capable of being taken onto the battlefields of the 41st millennium, and are often pintle-mounted on vehicles or used in Heavy Weapon Squads in the Imperial Guard, especially for vehicles produced from worlds that do not have the resources to produce Heavy Bolters. Obviously, they are not as strong as the Heavy Bolter they replace, which is several times more powerful than a regular Bolter, but they are powerful enough to get the job done.