I don't agree with the argument that being overwhelmed by numbers gives someone the rights to obtain overwhelming weapons as of stats for compensation. You should learn to live with it if you have chosen to be a part of a specific faction that barely recruits people due to the high standarts and expectations of RP'ing capability and tendency that is set by you, which I don't have a problem with.
If every overwhelmed faction was to start lobbying for advaned guns and dwell it in the argument of being overwhelmed by numbers, we wouldn't have a very stable understanding of things as we have been having upto date.
About NPCs with SW loadout, I believe that they should be restricted within the guard systems. I have been personally defending the fact that Nomad NPCs should pose slightly worse problems for people but I don't remember ever that I agreed with letting a restricted club obtain limitless rights to spread a superior set of NPCs throughout the entire Sirius. And even if the MR you are speaking of has inferior stats once compared with the MR humans use, having the ability of mounting such a gun on a LF is an unmatchable superiority, we all know that.
We all know that the Nomads have achieved to implement and establish invaluable assets so far but frankly, seeing this as an excuse for endangering the overall harmony is not something I would appreciate.