Is there any thing special about them? Are the useful past level 4, or should I sell them when I loot a better replacement?

They're the same as any other gun you'll find. Provided me with a decent sniper to use for my Zer0 for about twenty minutes until I found something better.

Lol, yeah same here. Just wondering cause I dropped them a while back. I figured every new character started with them anyway. Thanks for the answer.

I kinda wanted to keep them because they were cool looking, but their stats sucked so i sold those bitches.

Pretty good for that first fight. Where I died with my first char, before the guns were working.

replaced mine with a green gun at like level 3 but super useful for that first couple of minutes