This class of guns need to be primaries. They always spawn with ammo, just like primaries, making the need for secondary ammo irrelevant. They will now dominate everything. Goodbye snipers and shotguns and that other weapon type nobody bothers with, we now have constant ammo with our new sidearms.
The whole point of the secondary class is powerful weapons with less ammo, that is now ruined by literally putting primaries in the secondary slot.
So bungie fix this mistake immediately and put secondaries in the primary slot where they belong.
Edit: everybody needs to go look up the definition of burlesque
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Handcannons were originally Special Weapons but they were changed to Primary Weapons late in development. I think it would have been great if they had stayed that way. We should also have more types of actual [b]sidearms[/b] like [u]semi-automatic pistols[/u]: magazine fed pistol with really high capacity but much less damage than a Handcannon. Still effective at medium. And [u]machine pistols[/u]: even less damage than a semi-auto but have a really high rate of fire. Could be effective in close quarters with more range than a shotgun.