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The ammo has several different variations. Standard ammunition is the simple and inexpensive plain steel needle. Slightly more expensive and a little more specialised are the various bio-toxin needles. Some are designed for minor paralysis, similar to a tranquilizer. Others are designed for assassin use, and can kill with a single shot. Still another variant carries a slight EMP charge, and can be used to disable most electronics. The size of the ammunition is constant, due to the single available barrel size, which is the major drawback to the current generation of magnetic pistols.
The AR.27 has an incredible ability to punch through various surfaces. Skin and other biological materials are of no challenge whatsoever, given the incredible muzzle velocity possible with the slim-profiled and incredibly lightweight projectiles. They are also effective against steel up to and including two inches thick, and slightly more for lesser metals. However, the projectile will not be intact at this point, and instead will have suffered a considerable deal of deformity.
These pistols are exceedingly rare, as each is hand-made at the Asher-Robard plant. Consequently, they are also some of the most expensive weapons around. Few people own them, and the only place they can be obtained is through direct order from AR. One may occasionally be found in a second-hand store, but the odds of this are slim to nil. Going rate on the AR.27 is roughly fifty thousand ECs. By contrast, a top-of-the-line Citroen only costs around thirty thousand.