haam, i've had this wonderful idea on what we could do with the xl7, maybe allow the basic version to be done by a smallguns crafter lvl 2 and at smallguns lvl 3 you could equip it with an extended mag and a scope, would give people more of a reason to craft them and would allow high lvl players to actually want to use the upped version.
scope would add long range perk, and extended mag would up the cap to 56