nah rifleman is not the way to get the highest score on district: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/Mishotaki/bestscore.jpg that's the way... Engi revive pwns everything else for the points...
On normal maps, the weapons seem fine. but on the ultra confined district, yeah, the weapons are killer. just a truthful (imho) statement, not a suggestion.
I don't think he meant skills points and was actually talking about kills, and as your screen shot shows riflemen cannot be beaten on kills I also believe the weapons need some better balancing
The laser rifle has it's downsides like every weapon, it sucks at close range. Also the rifleman should get more kills than any other class, it's the only thing he can do.