Sharpshooters pistol doesn't scale making it useless before you ever get to use it
The sharpshooters pistol is locked to level 30 as its level, greatly lowering your item level and only doing a few hundred damage at most compared to other pistols doing thousands.
That's definitely broken. The level 1 M9 you start the game with does 197 damage. I tried the 93R a few times, didn't like it, too weak per shot, I prefer a precise pistol that I can land accurate headshots with, like the M9 a lot. 1911 is good too.