What sucks is people keep using examples like "well my friend uses a scout rifle and he does great" or "my friends and I never use a hand cannon and we kick ass" and congrats to those people but stuff like that doesn't mean it's the same way for everyone all the time. Something like this, a bona fide study, means something. I'm more in favor of buffing overall weapon classes up to even them out and slightly nerfing the most powerful outliers instead of nerfing everything to even it out. But it's tough to buff/nerf something perfectly, so we'll see.