It was a tough decision, but I went with handguns. Usually I just stick with those as backup or never for a ranger but the general meh-ness of rifle PAs (Hollow Snipe is eh, Wipeout is awesome but impractical, Mine Sneak is meh but I can't deny its usefulness and am willing to use a rifle with it just for that) kinda turns me off from them in this game mostly.

Then I came across an H44 with Thriller Combo and used it and my life was never the same. Thriller Combo's cool AND useful (Although I currently stick to my two with the slightly-not-as-cool-but-so-much-more-useful Flame Hit)