The internal ignition power cells were the most trouble. He was two short on final count and one was 'iffy', that meant of the eight total cells, primary and secondary, over the four complete but broken weapons, there were only five operational cells. That meant he could have two weapons and a third that was 'iffy', useful as a disposable hold out piece, or extra spare parts.
Ignition cells were the first piece to wear out on any gauss weapon. They were also the most heavily tracked and controlled as replacement items. Gone were the days of the ballistics tracking on replacement barrels, because ideally, the gauss pellet never touched the walls of the barrel. Now, the best way to make illegal weapons useless was to run them out of internal power and starve their firing power source.
