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First is the fact that some pistols and machine pistols are small enough that you can attach a pistol suppressor and still fit them in normal holsters (NIV only, obviously).

I didn't take size into account, mostly because not everybody uses NIV, and I couldn't make two different NIV and OIV guides, so I opted to (mostly) ignore size. There are several places in the text where size differences are still mentioned, but they don't figure into the final result.

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Second is the AP reduction part of the weapon stats. I'm not sure I understand this correctly, but when I look at, for example, the Benelli M3 in my XML Editor, it says that it has an 8% "General" AP reduction, while the M4 has that plus a 30% "Ready" AP reduction. In the game, it seems to me that a low agility merc like Bull will move much slower with the M4 than an M3. Am I perceiving that correctly? How does the AP reduction work?

It's hard to say, because the values you see in the XML and the Description box are NOT AP costs, instead they go through a whole bunch of recalculations to convert them to AP costs. I don't know why the M4 costs you more, as there's no reason it should. Perhaps there's a factor in that calculation that messes things up. Could you be more specific? What exactly is slower, the drawing part or the shooting part?