Pistols are one-handed weapons, typically using smaller-caliber ammunition than larger guns. But there’s still plenty of variety among pistols. Sure, there are humdrum examples like the Dahl Crappy Repeater you start your adventure out with, but don’t worry, it gets better. Just as there are basic semi-auto pistols, there are also fully automatic repeaters, element-slinging variants, and semi-auto revolvers that hit like dumptrucks. Since pistols fire, generally speaking, more slowly than SMGs, they tend to have harder-hitting individual projectiles, although the low-powered ammunition doesn’t enhance criticals… except on Jakobs revolvers. Pistols are the entry-level gun for Pandorans, few and far between, who aren’t yet veterans of gun ownership. The gateway gun. So, since they have the largest buying demographic, every manufacturer has a line of pistols—not true of any other firearm.
Pistol prefixes[]
| Accessory Effect | Bandit prefix |
Dahl prefix |
Hyperion prefix |
Jakobs prefix |
Maliwan prefix |
Tediore prefix |
Torgue prefix |
Vladof prefix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melee damage + | Baynaneted | Close Quarters | Action | Bowie | Evisceration | Permasharp | Thrusting | Patriot's |
| Accuracy + | misles | Floated | Earnest | Straight Shootin' | Punctilious | Dependable | Explicit | Righteous |
| One trigger squeeze fires two shots | Dubble | Twin | Redundant | Two Fer | Binary | Two for One | Double Penetrating | Dva |
| Stability + | Marxmans | Tactical | Core | Gunstock | Elegant | Clean | Stiff | Resolute |
| Magazine size + | Extendified | Loaded | Maximized | Loaded | Surfeit | Jam Packed | Crammed | Unending |
| Damage + | murduerer's | Neutralizing | Win-Win | Dastardly | Potent | Super | Hard | Purging |
| Fire rate + | Rapider | React | Dynamic | Trick Shot | Expeditious | Peppy | Intense | Vengeful |