If my shooters are going to be useless single shot pistol wielders who can only hit a zombie knocking on the building, the least they could do is help reload my second weapon when I switch from it when I'm out of ammo for it.
They're half-retarded mooks in every sense of the term, who appear to have a single muzzle loading pistol between them to shoot distant targets, die in droves just trying to run around during the day, and don't seem to provide any meaningful search benefit other than what I was already going to get. If I am forced to use mooks in a game, I would rather find some use out of them. That's why I organize them, right?