.32 Pistol (Fallout 3)

The  is a diminutive handgun in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
As the name would imply, this handgun uses .32 Caliber Round ammunition. It is commonly found to be in use by Capital Wasteland Raiders. Although it is a light weapon, it pales against the 10mm Pistol in terms of rate of fire and damage, and might be considered a waste of ammunition. It can, however, be fired quite fast if the player can get a rhythm down.

Overall it is a pitiful weapon, barely useful even to a player fresh out of the Vault, and only really would be useful as a last resort for when the aforementioned player runs out of ammo for his or her 10mm Pistol, or if it breaks, but later in the game after couple of level ups (after leaving Vault 101, if the SPECIAL points are placed correctly), even your bare fists can be a better choice than .32 Pistol, with .32 ammo being much better used in the powerful and accurate hunting rifle or its powerful variant Ol' Painless. The only real use to the player is to sell it.

A fully-repaired .32 can fire 550 shots, or 110 clips, before breaking.

Variants

 * Wild Bill's Sidearm (The Pitt add-on) - Found in Wild Bill's pockets, Wild Bill's Sidearm is much more powerful than any other small sidearm. (Exceptions being the AEP7, the Plasma Pistol, or the .44 Magnum.)


 * Law Dog - A variant of the .32 that was cut from the base game.

Locations
These are not very hard to come by. Most locations to find it are in shops, and on Raiders and Talon Company Mercs.
 * One can be found at Minefield, near the mattress where Arkansas snipes at you.
 * One can also be found at the Small Ranch near Megaton, which can be entered right after exiting the Vault.
 * One can be found in the National Guard Bunker on a wooden shelf, next to a box of 5 bullets for it.
 * Your father has a fondness for .32 pistols, as he is equipped with one after exiting Tranquility Lane, and two can be found inside Project Purity, one in the gift shop, and another in the basement sub-levels.
 * They can sometimes be found in Pulowski Preservation Shelters along with some skeletons.
 * Jenny Stahl carries a .32 Pistol, although when you become hostile with Megaton she flees as opposed to using it.
 * One can be found in the Hubris Publishing building under a table in a dead man's hand where he apparently couldn't take life anymore. There is also a Nuka-Cola Vending Machine, whiskey, and Quantum right next to it.
 * One can be found in Olney Underground, on a shelf. This one is in perfect condition.

Behind the scenes

 * It is possibly based on the "pocket revolvers" of the early 1900's - they were almost all top-break and the most common caliber was one of the many .32 cartridges made at the time, all equally anaemic.
 * This weapon is similar in appearance to an Iver Johnson .32 S&W revolver, sharing both the five-shot capacity and the cheap, unreliable construction.

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