clam:
@Loki
If you don’t want to do the muzzle effect yourself, you might find some of the Armorcast Cinematic Effects interesting:
http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=100&osCsid=d32c4fbe48a0db3b941ab57f92d56f8c
(we discussed a few of them here: https://discourse.chaos-dwarfs.com/t/11117)