Those scary black rifles, are less than 1% of murders. It's around ~100 deaths a year with them via homicide. All rifles combined are around 2.5-3k a year. Handguns make up like 95% all gun deaths in the USA.
Thought I'd add in some numbers for you, but you're %100 correct.
The first one has a huge following, metacritic is terrible for some games. Look at the steam reviews.
And damn you're right, I guess they pushed it back. I thought it was coming out this year.