User blog comment:Willbachbakal/Co-Op Weapons: Syringe/@comment-3195894-20110814230746/@comment-3195894-20110816195236

For the Cheiroballista, or manuballista (hand ballista), It was supposed to be smaller than the scorpio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(Dart-thrower)) like a more powerful crossbow. and for the pepperbox addition, it would work very well with Bioshock's atmosphere, good call!