FYI, there is a glitch that allows you to return from the simulation and bring the Winterized PA and I think a new guass rifle back into the real world. Both have ridiculously high points for their repair (I believe the PA has over 1 million) so they never need repair and both work fine in the rest of the game. The glitch involves putting a body on the teleporter and loading it wioth weapons, or something like that.