I dont mean to sound rude, but I'd like to see YOUR evidence that shows that the majority of the 900+ people on this forum call for a sniper nerf. It seems to me that there is an even split of these opinions at best, and the people that do support the nerf are usually players who are either less skilled, or players who use and/or abuse shotguns to the point that they have more kills with them than most of their other weapons. Even if I gave you the benefit of the doubt by saying the majority of the people on this forum support a sniper nerf, who is to say that they aren't an accurate representation of the Destiny community as a whole? Until we can get an accurate representation of what everyone truly wants, snipers should remain the way they are. I think I've said enough what you can do to counter them. Just for fun today, I used a handcannon and a fusion rifle for a while just to see if I would encounter any problems with snipers in close quarters. Throughout the span of several hours of using this load out, I encountered maybe 1 or 2 scenarios in which the sniper either killed me or traded with me at close quarters. When I died, it was my fault for not backing off. I just thought I'd mention this since your main concern seems to be the fact that snipers are effective at close range in the right hands when you believe that they shouldn't be. However, I hardly ran into these problems myself since I approached the snipers carefully. In my opinion, nerfing body shot damage and ADS time would encourage poor shotgunners to not use vertical space or approach snipers as aggressively as they should when they are given the opportunity.