Nope. If you can get the story about what happened to his wife, you find out that gun (a unique sniper rifle with an abnormally fast firing rate) was his before he locked it away and left it in his sniper-nest near cottonwood cove. If he's in your party when you retrieve it (taking 100 lock-picking skill) he'll comment on remember that rifle. Not going to spoil -why- he left it there if you haven't done his story.



He can unload the whole magazine (6 shots, instead of the normal 5) in like 2.5 seconds, turning most enemies in to swiss cheese from a huge distance. And with his basically capped gun-skill, he almost never misses with it.



But yeah, hard to beat Veronica punching right through Deathclaws at high levels, especially with the Fist of RAWR or a Saturnite Fist. And insisting those should count as ranged weapons and cheering if you tell her to just punch stuff.