5.56mm Pistol (GRA)

The 5.56mm pistol is a weapon added with the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal.

Characteristics
A 5.56mm pistol, it looks clean with an intact black finish. It has two small red LEDs on the side, and a large pale green LED on the back. Much like its unique variant That Gun, it is a heavily modified, pared-down .223 pistol, successor to the same weapon from Fallout and Fallout 2. It weighs five pounds and has a motorized cylinder and crane for quicker shooting and reloading. When reloading, the cylinder mechanically swings open to the left and auto-ejects the spent casings for a more efficient reload time. The green light on the left side turns yellow while reloading, then turns green and emits a ringing noise once the weapon has reloaded. The two variants of this weapon share the capability to use dedicated armor piercing rounds, a trait that is unique among pistols.

Unlike That Gun, the 5.56mm pistol is considered an improved holdout weapon, and thus can be concealed with a Sneak skill of 50 or higher. Along with its unique variant, it is the only pistol in the game that loads armor piercing ammunition that does not require the Hand Loader perk to fabricate.

Durability
The 5.56mm pistol can fire a total of about 870 standard rounds, or 174 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * That Gun, the unique version of the 5.56mm pistol found in the base game.

Locations

 * Mojave Outpost, sold by Lacey.
 * Novac, sold by Cliff Briscoe.
 * Gun Runners, sold by Vendortron.
 * 188 Trading Post, sold by the arms merchant and Alexander.
 * Various merchants around the Mojave Wasteland.

Behind the scenes
Like That Gun, this pistol is modeled on the pistol used by Rick Deckard, the main character of the film Blade Runner, but is not an exact copy. That Gun and the 5.56mm pistol being used to destroy 15 robots with Benefit Or a Hazard challenge is a specific nod.