Board Thread:Fun and Games Forum/@comment-25175520-20150521200045/@comment-24306135-20150615191714

(Ok. Proper answer given already, but restated: The guns were made by the repair station that healed Sauron, along with his armor, in response to Sauron's original job, namely pacifying newly-terraformed planets before the Collapse. So the weapons, being Golden Age gear, are up to par.)