Institute rifle

The Institute rifle is a weapon in Fallout 4.

Characteristics
The weapon seems to be similar to the standard laser rifle, but has been improved by The Institute. It is made of plastic as opposed to steel and has a blue laser instead of the standard red. It is a decent early game weapon with moderate damage and a high semi automatic rate of fire and adequate magazine capacity.

Variants
The Institute rifle can be modified like all other weapons to create variants. These include a fully automatic variant, a scattered variant, pistol variant, and sniper variant.

Unique variants:
 * Virgil's rifle

Locations
The Institute rifle can be found on the bodies of synths more rarely then institute pistols. One Institute rifle can be found by on a synth in ArcJet Systems.