As someone who owns plenty and carries one daily, I think there does need to be changes to the marksman pistol.
The change i'd suggest is change its ammo type from pistol bullets to sniper bullets to make them harder/more expensive to use/carry.
As I have mentioned, I do carry and own multiple marksman pistols. Does this mean I like using them? No, it does not, but unfortunately, especially when facing police with ARs and helmets, you have no other option at range to be able to gain the upper hand on said individuals.
Now after reading through this thread, the comment of "Only fed mains will +1 this" is clearly not true as I myself and others I know share similar opinions would like to see the marksman altered or removed. Now obviously, as stated by others, removing the marksman pistol favors the police as they are much more likely to "win" firefights against crims as they wont be getting 1 tapped no more, even with helmets on. To attempt to "balance" it out as fairly as possible (do remember that the police are meant to be more powerful than gangs), the statement "I agree with this if they took out head armour all together" is one that I agree with. I believe helmet armour should never have been introduced to the server, even worse supplied to gangs the way it was. As gang members will know now, the amount of helmet armour in circulation has drastically plummeted over the past 6 months and is uncommon to see outside of the police and other factions. I personally believe helmet armour should be fully removed from the server, especially from gangs and groups (The Lost and Firm included). I think that the crafting recipe should be removed and it should also be removed from the police armoury. Any helmet armour left on the server shall remain on the server until it is used up or lost due to other means. With the removal of head armour, the usage of the marksman pistol wouldn't be as effective and therefore wouldn't be used as much. If people realised you could head shot anyone with most guns, the variety of firearms you would see on the street would widen quite a lot, thus escaping the marksman pistol meta the server has found itself in.
P.S Jack Johnson is a helmet x