Yet another Brink journal

So, I finally acquired Brink and it's relatively nice and all. There's a bit of a polishing to do (and I need to find good servers because some people seem to be extremely warpy), of course. Hope someone with half a brain releases a promod which appeals to my tastes instead of some random CoD-players tastes, for example.

There's a few things that bug me, though.
First off, I can't seem to find a single decent weapon in the game. I tried most of the ones available at level 1, and all of them had a ridicilously large rate of fire. Now, the spread isn't really anything big in the game, but I just hate the insane RoF. The clips are empty in like three seconds of continuous firing, which is a bit too fast for my liking. Are there any weapons in the game that don't have this?

Secondly, the fucking sentry turrets. How do I take them down? I need to fire multiple clipfulls of ammo into them for them to be incapacitated. Do grenades take them down faster? How do I even throw grenades? Is it possible to remove them entirely using server-side commands? I'd definitely like to see them gone.

Also there's loads of screen bobbing and shaking, just like in vanilla ET. The damage feedback is also somewhat silly, or at least that's what it seems. I get the impression that some people just basically instakill me with assault rifles, although I was at full health. Might be lag or me just not noticing the health bar depleting because of the poor damage feedback. However, the screen bobbing is the bigger issue, are there cvars to remove it?

PS: Any configs to make the game look as clear as possible would be appreciated. So far I just tuned down everything from the menu and set r_shadows "0", but I bet there are more ways to make it run better and look clearer.

PPS: Flashbangs are fucking retarded, I hope they can be removed too