It has nothing to do with which weapon is preferred. The guns they are nerfing are needing the the nerf because they are more effective at killing than intended. It creates an imbalance in PVE and PVP. All guns should be equally advantageous in different situations, meaning that a scout rifle SHOULD beat any other primary at the middle ground between medium and long range. BUT an auto rifle should be a little more powerful at that mid range. Pulse rifles are supposed to be a little less powerful and easier to control. BUT with the way pulse rifles are right now, they kill any other primary faster than heck. The same goes for black hammer. It has nothing to do with the fact that people prefer it. But it has everything to do with WHY people prefer it. If people preferred the weapon coz it looked nice, they wouldn't nerf it. But if they review which weapons people use more and then test and find that that weapon is far more powerful than all others to the point of making the multiplayer BROKEN, then yeah bungie is going to fix the unfair imbalance in their game. Black hammer has a crazy unfair advantage over all other legendary snipers. It isn't just preferred.