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tbh, I don't really think it makes a huge amount of difference. The discussion about sidearms and personal weapons has gone on way longer than it needed to in the first place; my whole point was I wanted to avoid fucking stupid things like fighter pilots tooling around with duffel-bags full of pistol magazines (which someone actually did in an RP I ran before. Mind you, same player also did try to pull off backflipping an A-10...), or otherwise flying their jet tooled up like the Punisher. 
I.e. putting some common sense in there. 

It says on the character sheet you get a standard issue sidearm. That's what you get. 
End of discussion.