User blog comment:Crazy sam10/Call of Duty: Black Ops II Xbox Community Update (5/23/13)/@comment-4619585-20130524053541/@comment-173.60.95.67-20130524073306

Pistols are fine. They need the high damage at close range so they don't become useless. Lower damage at range is fine though, but high damage at close range is fine. I don't feel like going up against people with the Python again, thank you. Seriously, pistols are fine now, but in BO1, it was Python here, Python there, Python everywhere. Seriously. Pistols finally have a niche.

Five-Seven: All around, offset by having no specific trait, trades this for extremely high capacity, at twenty rounds.

Tac-45: High Damage, high range, moderate recoil pistol with lower capacity.

B23R: A burst fire pistol that deals good damage with moderat recoil and small magazine. Useful where firerate and accuracy are required.

KAP-40: Bullethoser. The "You need to get out of my face weapon".

Executioner: It does what it says it does. Use as A. A humiliation weapon. B. Something to use because it's a mini-shotgun. Or C. Until Treyarch puts the Python into multiplayer. In all honesty: High damage, short range, slow reload.