To be fair - LEVEL 39! It's killing me leveling up this much. Just yesterday I sat down for an hr straight and levelled up 42000xp and I only managed to get to lv 37 because of skill assessments.
In all logic the Gauss is 1 point away form max damage. If other weapons with that damage can kill in one hit why not the sniper. It can't be suppressed right? And the ROF is bad so it's a trade off and a fair one at that.