Yeah, I've had crap luck when it comes to legendary pistol drops, which svcks because I'm playing as a gunslinger-- non-auto pistols. I've been basically been stuck using Old Faithful for over 2/3rds of my play time now, with a basic plasma pistol as backup. I just started using Kellogg's Pistol as well, but I'm not built around Crits, so it's less useful.

Something amusing... went to clean out Feral Ghouls at [insert location]... second one I encountered was Legendary Feral Ghoul Roamer... and he dropped a Ghoul Slayer pistol that does +50% damage. Things became sort of laughable after that, but what timing!

I just wanted a normal looking assault rifle and not one that looks like a WW1 MG.... -.-

Well there are revolvers - I even got a revolving sniper rifle at one point. I don't understand the desire for lever-action firearms, though. New Vegas had quite a few of them but that game had far too much of a cowboy feel for me.

There is A revolver. A rusty makeshift thing.

In the spirit of "retro futurism" which seems to govern the fallout world, maybe they weren't invented?