The gun will still be good, what other gun will be able to lay 18 rounds into a boss without reloading at all? That will still be very useful and effective. But there are a lot of reasons that will justify it: 1. People use it to cheese raids/strikes/missions. We are about to get new of all of those, the last thing bungie wants is us not to experience these new raids, missions, and strikes, and instead sit in the corner and snipe someone with infinite ammo. 2. How long can sitting in a corner infinitely sniping a boss stay fun? Allowing this hurts the replay ability of the game. Making the game more challenging, for most, makes the game more fun, and makes in replayable for much longer. 3. There is no way they can come up with a more powerful sniper whether exotic or legendary with this perk the way it is. Future games the best they could do to compete with what Black Hammer was would be to reskin it (then just let the complaining begin after that). Or never make a sniper as good again (then just let the complaining begin after that as well). To be honest they should have seen this issue before they even released the gun with infinite ammo, the real issue was giving us the gun in the first place, not the fixing of it. 4. The perk made it more powerful then all of the exotic snipers out there. People were effectively walking around with 2 exotic weapons equipped. 5. Just like Gjallarhorn, some people were using it as a requirement to party up with them, as in their reasoning with Gjallarhorn they do not want that happening with any weapons. I understand you liked the weapon how it is, and you enjoyed using it. But I would hope most people can at least see why it was done and understand it. There will be more weapons for you to grind for in the future, and there are plenty of other fun snipers out there to use right now.