in my head the machine gun turet Sierra uses to guard the facility is like . an M60 but chambered in a larger caliber . walter white type shit, with an actual aiming system . but I'm kinda realizing that a larger caliber would have just fucking blown her entire foot off and be impossible to repair, so uhh nevermind, 7.62 it is!

besides, anything ... "heftier" would be difficult to take with her, and it would be a shame to leave a perfectly good machine gun behind !

the panel on her legs is thin enough to not pose much of an issue for it, and the bullets are super FMJ AP awesome. the shield was fine mainly because it was angled and just deflected the bullets. but it's also, you know, made to withstand bullets to a greater degree