I personally dislike the method of obtaining pistols.
I would like to offer a different method of obtaining pistols by means of Bronze Orders.
Make another random weapon drop option. Just like random weapon delivery, but with sidearms only. It will cost 3 or 5 bronze weapon orders to obtain one. So people don’t have to dump so many bronze orders to obtain one pistol. Not too easy but not too hard to earn pistols.
There will soon™ be change to weapons so you won’t be able to get new weapons with bronze orders. And given how poorly it was implemented for soldier orders I would spend them for random weapons as much as you can and hope for some pistols since this is the only way to get them and I’m far too skeptical that people behind this game actual think ahead what would removal of one button do. So they will likely find it out after they remove random bronze order purchases and then it takes a month or two to come up with pistols for silver or pistols as an equipment for X bronze orders.