To be honest, I like a heavy rifle IRL. It makes the kick nice and soft. My AR-10 with all the crap on it (Magpul PRS, ACOG w/RMR, Atlas bipod, VG6 Gamma comp) is like 11 pounds. Shooting full-power .308, the recoil is so light, I can easily one-hand the whole thing like a pistol.As an avid gun fan, I really cannot agree on this aspect, the guns almost universally look retarded. Either they're malformed "bethesda'd" IRL guns like the M1911 or Vintorez, or they're abominations that look like legos and look like they weigh about 30 pounds.
Like seriously look at the above weapon, it's a 'caseless .50' rifle. Presumably not full .50BMG because of it's damage modifiers, so why does it need that absurdly thick barrel/barrel jacket? This apparent hunting rifle (hence the big stupid rail sight, ala a shotgun?) is overbuilt to the max.
You know what hunters like with their guns? LIGHTNESS. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO CARRY THE FUCKING THING AROUND ALL DAY.
And to top it off, this future mega-gun has a wooden stock. +5 points for style but -10 for immersion unless it's a rare and valuable upgrade.
The mass units in-game are supposed to be kilograms, so the Lawgiver weighs about 12 pounds. IRL, if it were solid wood and mostly solid metal and looked like that, it would be thirty, maybe forty pounds, however, the thickness of the barrel shroud doesn't really tell us anything about what it's made of underneath. It could be a carbon fiber over-wrap with a thin layer of polished metal on top.
I like the Laredo guns not because they are in any way practical (quite the opposite, most of them have mechanisms that make absolutely no sense at all), but because they look like they brought Raymond Loewy back from the grave to design retro-fifties sci-fi guns. They have remnants of Fallout 4's Raygun Gothic thing going on.