Chinese Pistol (Fallout 3)

The Shansei C96 Chinese Pistol is a relic of the United States' war with China, an event that triggered the Great War, that can still be found in the Capital Wasteland.

Characteristics
It is arguably the weakest pistol in the game and is nearly useless as a weapon. Its only uses are for its value in trade (it is pound-for-pound the most valuable of all conventional weapons), and for repairing its unique incendiary version, the Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol. Given the availability of the N99 10mm pistol (which has superior stats), and the fact that they share ammunition, it is advised that you pass on using the Chinese pistol.

However, one upside is that a fully repaired Chinese pistol can fire 1242 rounds before breaking. That's more than twice the amount of the N99, making it an excellent choice if you don't want to worry about constantly having to repair your weapon. Keep in mind that, even though it has twice the durability of the N99 10mm pistol, it takes more rounds down range to drop your target.

Another upside is its Value:Weight ratio. It has one of the highest V:W ratios of any small gun in the game, and it's relative commonality makes it a great trading item to merchants.

On the side of the weapon, there are some badly scribed Chinese wards, which reads from right to left as "民團十八軍". Those wards means "18th Militia Army", which may indicate the Chinese force that attacked US back in he great war wasn't even the actual PLA (人民解放軍) but just a group of militia.

Variants

 * Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol - While the Zhu-Rong does the same base amount of damage, it is unique due to the fact that it fires incendiary rounds, which deal fire damage over time.
 * In the Operation: Anchorage add-on, Chinese pistols are carried by the Crimson Dragoons. They are not re-skinned but have near infinite durability. They can be obtained by using the inventory glitch during the simulation by using the Gauss rifle and pickpocketing, but cannot be brought into the wasteland. (Your inventory is purged after finishing The Guns of Anchorage.)
 * Another, cut version of the weapon is included in Operation: Anchorage, apparently intended for use in the normal game after completion of the simulation. It differs only in name, called the Chinese Dragoon Pistol.  It is only accessible through console commands.

Locations

 * Low-level raiders throughout the wasteland often carry them. Higher-level raiders still carry them occasionally, but not very often.
 * Most traders usually have one or two Chinese pistols in their inventory.
 * One can be found in the Museum of Dave, located inside the Republic of Dave.
 * One of these can be found on the mothership in the add-on Mothership Zeta in the Cryo-labs on a table surrounded by other wasteland objects in a storage room.

Appearances
s only appear in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
despite being deemed the "chinese pistol" it's real-life counterpart is of german origin.

Errors

 * The reload animation for the Chinese pistol has the player loading a stripper clip into the pistol. However, the animation literally loads the entire stripper clip into the weapon, instead of stripping the rounds into the internal magazine and throwing the empty clip away.

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