Ellen Park, the Lone Wanderer

The man glances over at Patience a moment. "Not that you haven't got a fine piece there, but I'm going to go out on a girder and bet that's a semiautomatic at best," he says. "The Blackrock Special's full auto, but it's had a few modifications that compensate for the worst elements of that. You won't find a weapon from here to the Commonwealth that can put more lead into a smaller patch of a target in the span of ten seconds. Not to mention that it takes the same rounds as an ordinary American-made assault rifle, so you can afford to feed it even if all you've got to your name is Nuka-Cola caps."