I have experienced this a number of times. I will see a damage value, but when I click to equip the gun the value lowers.
Before I click on it:
After I try to equip it:
The gun has the garbage talent Measured on it. Does that have something to do with it? Can someone explain this?
Maybe, but the math doesn't seem to work out if that is the base damage. -20% from 24.6K= 19.7K.
If 24.6 is the average, then the bottom half would be 32.4k, but if that is the case those are not - and + 20% values.
I got one with Measured recently, I do not know if I sold it. I will look at the values to try to make sense of them. Right now it doesn't seem correct somehow.