The problem with auto rifles is that they would kill targets that were well out of range too fast. They should put the stability and damage back to normal with even a few damage buffs, but then turn the rilfe into a marshmallow gun after ("felwinters lie" range) in front of the player. the rifle will make up for short comings with fire rate. Auto rifles should be used to counter shotguns in PvP. PvE is where they could just do the same as with shotguns and give a unnecessarily high damage boost.