It is good enough to carry the player through the game (or at least up until you can get your hand on the Turbo plasma rifle and level up the Energy Weapons skill). 223 ammo and dealing a whopping 20-30 points of damage. It is considered the best Small Gun in the game, using the plentiful and cheap. Nothing too hard at this point in the game for any decent combat character.
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FALLOUT 4 .223 PISTOL FOR FREE
However in all games it's possible to shoot the merchant in the face and take all their items for free - sometimes without even being attacked by guards for doing so! Later games fixed this by jacking up the merchants' selling prices so that even with a maxed Barter skill you still pay through the nose for items. Thus, with a bit of swapping back and forth you can take everything a person is willing to sell you for free.
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Since everyone except the casinos have limited resources, the whole wasteland economy is somewhat broken.
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All you need to do is to hold down the hotkey '1' in the dialogue at the table and wait until you're in the millions.