This card looks bland on the tin but it does so much work on a gun focused deck, it is basically saving you actions, resources and potentially even XP, cause all your guns will stick for a longer time in play before you need a replacement and you may not even need cards that replenish your guns ammo. Also, it is very good with certain weapons that have super powerful singular shots, especially the ones with low ammo count inherently, like Shotgun (Sawed Off and not), Lightning Gun, Flamethrower and the Chicago Typewriter. Another gun that gets a surprisingly big boost from this is the .18 Deringer, that card is low costed and guarantees value for your investment as missing shots gives you back the ammo you used, having an extra ammo on those means an extra "guaranteed" hit, the LV 2 .18 Deringer becomes a 2 cost 4 ammo weapon wich is great value.

At 3XP it is costly but it’s worth it and being a permanent it will always be online. This card biggest weakness is that its impact diminishes with guns that have lots of ammo inherently specially the BAR and the Gatling Gun, as one extra ammo for those would only give you +1 damage.

The accessory slot this occupies clashes with Lucky Cigarette Case. The proposition of this card is to make Michael use his ability 3+ times a turn instead of 2 times, due to the "Limit once per firerarm asset" restriction on his ability. It also let's you search for and draw a firearm asset. The second part is only decent if you are not running Underworld Market because it completely eliminates the problem of not having a gun when a fight starts, making "Viola" Case less valuable. Holding more guns before drawing Confiscation is not ideal, so most of the time you would play this card late, and at that point you might already have missed out on getting a lot of value from "Viola" Case. I guess the main reason this item exists is a built in Bandolier which is a card that makes 2 handed weapons a much better proposition. The problem is that at this point of the game, 2 handed weapons are only necessary for nieche cases like scenarios where a lot of crowd control is needed, or extremely tanky bosses with very high fight values that need to be killed quickly. Most of the time, you can solve these problems another way, and if you are not running 2 handed items at all in a Michael deck, I would only use this as an Unexpected Courage.

I feel like I have been sucked into a parallel dimension or something. This card has some restricted uses but it isn’t good guys, what are you on about? "Not having to care about XP", like one review suggested is not a pro, you can “not care about XP” if you want and you will outpace Ascetic very fast just from incidental XP, there is no need to take this card for that. All the other XP cost reduction cards you can "combo" with Ascetics you can just run without it and you will outpace an Ascetic deck in one two scenarios max. Also 10 XP makes scenario 1 easier and then by scenario 2 you are level with the intended difficult more or less, so it does a super poor job of frontloading anything, you guys are jumping through some serious hoops to find value on a meh card. It's inventive, it helps groups going into the last stretch of a campaign after having an investigator go insane or die and its great for new players joining late into a campaign, and that’s it.

Hell yeah

I feel like Robert Castaigne can breathe new life into this card. Whether you're Tony Morgan or Michael McGlen, you can have it sit in your hand and fire it once per turn as a fast action.

I wouldn't be shocked if Robert ends up with a similar taboo to something like Sleight of Hand, limiting the level of cards he can affect - although if he does, it'll impact the Remington Model 1858 that pretty much feels like it was designed to work with him. That, or a taboo saying "actually no you do have to actually play or discard the card".