There are no good pistols at all - the reason I haven't played my original adven (Nolty) since they nerfed Freedom Arms. They were fine. Large numbers of stupid people caused a huge problem for a lot of players who became useless and had to reroll new characters because of this weapons removal.
Bring back the Freedom Arm 3927!
Please? If not, could someone from Funcom (Cosmik) actually explain why they were utterly removed from the game?