User blog comment:JackFrost23/RDR Cheater Exploits and "The Bubble Gun"/@comment-71.190.193.181-20110620224644/@comment-1265875-20110621152049

The "Bubble Gun" apparently is a Golden Cattleman that will reduce any player shot with it back to Level 1. R* says it doesn't exist and cites that reports of it appearing on the PS3 proves that it is just rumor because PS3 files can't be modded.

And I don't know what happened to it, but I put some lines in the original blog piece about getting a flash drive. I can't recommend that highly enough. If you care about your progress, it's very cheap to have a flash drive backup file. You have been warned.