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Cats should hunt, down, only if hungry kill and eat their fill, and haul (or rescue) the prey to a square next to a colonist bed.

And they should do this about once a day.  Even if they are fully fed.

This would make cats more cat-like and more useful.

Have you ever made a pistol, pump shotgun or a bolt-action rifle?

Of course not.  If you are in the position to make one of those guns, you may as well make a much better gun.

So clearly the answer is to make these weapons much easier to craft then better guns.  How do we do this?

We put a research project for "Simple Gun Parts Production" in the "industrial" section of the tech tree, right next to electricity.  Then you craft the parts and use them (instead of components) to make your simple guns.