User blog comment:Willbachbakal/Multiplayer Weapons: Railgun/@comment-1876907-20100522125528

Ok then, because the slugs wouldn't be held in a magnetic field Pre firing. And the rivit gun still isn't a sniper rifle. Although less damage would makee sense, because the mechanism for extracting and delivering the EVE would probbly not be made of tungsten, meaning less mass, and less damage.