I'm using it, after a few text edits recommended by @GunsForGuns a few posts back. I thought the mod would not load at all, if changes were not made to the files.
@FORTREZZER: Do other items in the mod work, like the "small laser machine gun?"
On the subject of plagiarism - that is the act of using someone's words as if they were your own. So, if someone wants make a new thread with a link to this one, of their own working updated version, giving full credit to the original creator, detailing their changes to the original work, and is willing to take it down if the OP asks or comes back with their own update - I don't think there will be a problem.