New Reno Arms

New Reno Arms is the large gun emporium run by Eldridge on New Reno's Commercial Row. It supplies a formidable variety of guns, ammo, and armor. Eldridge pays Jules on Virgin street to send newcomers his way and also pays for an advertising slot during boxing matches at the Jungle Gym. It can be inferred that Eldridge is a supporter of the NCR by the numerous NCR posters and promotional NCR History Holodisk found in his shop. All retrofitting of weapons provided by Eldridge is performed by the munitions savant Algernon. Algernon lives in the basement of New Reno Arms tinkering about the squaller and scattered parts surrounding him. The basement includes a fair array of tools, ammo, and even a howitzer. If you can break through the stores back door and get past Eldridge's three dogs Packard, Buck, and Missy down to Algernon he can upgrade any weapon for you free. Eldridge also reserves a special stock of heavy weapons offered at discount prices exclusively to a Made Man of any family. If you want to avoid confrontation with Eldritch, make sure you sneak in during day time, and only come upstairs during day time.

A note about upgrading weapons: when you give a weapon to an NPC for an upgrade, regardless of how many ammo you had left in the gun, you will always get the upgraded version fully loaded. In the case of some guns (such as Desert Eagle .44 and Assault Rifle) where they can take 2 types of Ammunition, a clip full of JHP ammo is given. In the case of Flamer, normal Flamethrower fuel is given. ALWAYS unload your weapons before giving to any NPC for upgrade.

Upgrading, for most guns, does not increase the value of gun when it is unloaded. The exceptions to this are FN FAL, Hunting Rifle (both guns increase by $500 after upgrade) and Plasma Rifle (goes from $4000 to $10000!).

A trick can be done on Flamethrower fuel to double your fuel ammunition (very useful for those flamethrower players), but requires a Flamethrower to perform. First, reload the Flamethrower so that you have 5 (or less) flamethrower fuel as the first in the stack. Ask Algernon to upgrade your fuel once, and you will be given 10 Improved Flamer Fuel. Now unload your Flamer, and ask Algernon to upgrade your fuel again, and you will have 20 Improved fuel instead of 10. Repeat for the rest of the fuel canisters.