User blog comment:JAlbor/Wikia at E3 2012/@comment-117.201.100.92-20120524050632/@comment-1888015-20120524195654

I only mentioned the amount of question marks because posting lots of them tends to result in people not taking you seriously.

Also, we're not sure whether you can take firearms from dead NPCs, but what we do know is that you can only use Connor's flintlock pistols once more after a combat situation, since the Ubisoft developers say that they take time to reload, of which Connor would need to do out of battles to be realistic.