Did this RONIN shotgun has official image? If it doesn's CDPR can represent it whenever they wants to. If it is (i doesn't found pictures tho) well its 57 year after 2020 and CDPR uses this as cover from 2020 fans.
Despite of how CHEAP guns are (we actually don't know much about prices of guns) there is place for some homemade guns. In every time there are "mad engineers" who build their mad weapons. And it can be easy explained with people who doesn't want corporate rights for all weapon so they build "their own" weapons.
If you said so. Those THING on barrels is most probably are electromagnets which accelerate the bullets. Why gauss/railgun weapon isn't TECH weapon?
In PnP game (the one CP2077 is based) "Ronin" is a commercial name for M18 Assault Rifle. The most popular and iconic weapon of the verse. That's why naming a not very good design "Ronin" is not a good idea.
The doublebarell is not build by a gang for themselves. It is an ARASAKA design. Arasaka is the second largest weapon manufacturer of the verse. Yet it seems that this DB is the only shotgun they make. And seriously, right now, from the money from your wallet, you can probably buy a shotgun that is a state of the art space tech compared to DB. Guns are cheap. In CP universe they are waaaay cheeper, because they are the essentials as water and air.
Electromagnets will accelerate a bullet, provided it's made of iron. It'll still be, howecer, a fairly low tech slug. All the science, physics, ballistics behind them is the same as in regular, powder powered slug. It's, bassically, XIV century technology behind it. It's not TECH.
Lasers, EMP, microwaves are TECH. They use sophisticated tech to operate and are, generally, anti- tech weapon. lasers can affect sight, emp disrupts electronics, micro fries tissue, particle beams disrupts matter. That's TECH not an iron bullet.
My issue, however, is mostly cosmetic. I just dont like the looks of most weapons presented, and fear that the range will be lackluster. Yes, there sure will be a tons of variants, but they will all look the same. As for mechanics (+cosmetics because said guns are fugly and "that is not how guns work"ish ), it suggest that a person responsible for that part of development was a random person with absolutely no idea what he/she was doing. Why? There were tons games with guns before. And all did that part better. It means somebody was not paying attention.
That's not a game breaking issue, I can of course live with that, and I believe what we saw is in large part placeholder art and mechanics. But as a gun porn fan, I'm a little worried