I never said the pistol was a sniper rifle, though I used a similar joke to prove my point. Your argument was that it couldn't be powerful because it was a pistol, and therefore for some reason it wasn't possible for it to be a good weapon, it had to suck, and I said some thing like "how do you know it's a pistol, how do you know that it's not the new sniper rifle in the future?" Obviously I was kidding. And I still don't see what's wrong with the pistol in Halo, why can't it be the power weapon of the game, if it even is? It's a damn skin and a name.
As for the Splinter Cell sniper rifle thing, I didn't say it was more powerful, I said with the information given about the two the Splinter Cell one was more powerful. Big difference.
It also seems that you and Double A don't understand what a little thing I like to call a "joke" is.