Just found this out yesterday. With the low zoom sniper rifles, you can now unequip all scopes and use the iron sights. It no longer sticks you with the x6 scope. Haven't tried this with VS or NC but I don't see why theirs would be different than TR.
All the close range weapons (TSAR-42, KSR-35, HSR-1) had an iron sights option. This actually annoyed me greatly when trialing the guns because the trial was a waste with iron sights, imo. They have had this ability since launch as far as I know.
ya rly... what is the point of this?? I'm not an Iron hater, I just hate that they don't actually DO anything besides look different and get in the frikkin way
Iron sights are useful for medium range. Better than a scout rifle. They have less scope sway, do to not being zoomed in as much, and are a lot easier to line up a shot quickly because of this. If i remember right, you couldn't remove the scope from them. When you did, it placed a 6x scope on it. Mabye, they fixed this a while back. I haven't played with them in a while. Either way, it was news to me. Hope it helps some others out.
