Gunslinger

Oh God yes.

Historically, gunslingers were the rough-and-tumble frontier men of the old west, where, armed with the two most famous guns ever made, the Colt revolver and the Winchester rifle, they fought the natives, the animals, and one another in the name of Humanity Fuck Yeah.

Culturally, the gunslinger was the American equivalent of the old stories of the European knight-errant, wandering from place to place righting wrongs and shooting bandits. One famous aspect of these stories is the quick-draw duel, where two men stand in the street at high noon (when everyone knows to get out of the way and the sun is in neither of their eyes), and stare each other down, each waiting for the other to draw first so that he will have the benefit of arguing "self-defense" in court after the duel is over. In most, but not every case, the villain draws first, but the hero is faster than him and kills him.

Just like the medieval knight underwent a series of anti-heroic revisions recently, the cultural myths around the gunslingers of the old west have been reexamined in a number of "revisionist" (read: realistic) Westerns that paint them in a more morally-ambiguous light.

Dungeons and Dragons

Because of the usual problem, for years the closest thing the D&D family had to a playable gunslinger class were the gunfighting paladins of Murlynd who resembled sheriffs from these Westerns, and whose holy text was basically a pulp novel of his exploits. In 3rd Edition, this amounted to a single feat buried in an issue of Dragon Magazine.

5th Edition has sought to resolve this lengthy injustice by introducing gunslingers as a sub-class of Artificer.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder actually had the balls to add gunslinger as a character class in a world of knights and swords, because fuck Medieval Stasis. They're built on the "fighter" template, so they get lots of hitpoints and lots of feats, and they enjoy a resource pool called grit that they can use for various effects. Grit is actually regenerated by doing badass deeds of derring-do as much as by rest, so shooting out chandeliers, challenging villains to quick-draw duels, and leaping sideways through the air while firing are all heartily encouraged.

More than perhaps any other class, gunslingers benefit from Pathfinder's "archetype" system. One gunslinger class feature basically lets the character pick a gun off a rack to start the game with (since, otherwise, you'd have to spend more money than the entire party probably has at character creation to buy a single weapon, let alone ammunition), and sticking with one type of gun and picking an archetype to go with it is very advantageous. Musket master gunslingers get lots of free reloading powers, pistolieros get sneak-attack-style extra precision damage, siege gunners get to be cannon fighters, etc. Note that there is only one "good" way to do a dual pistol build ("Gun Twirling," which is super feat-heavy), outside of weird stuff (being a member of the four-armed kasatha race, multi-classing to either witch or alchemist long enough to pick up an extra limb, picking the bard archetype for juggling weapons, etc.), so it's tricky to do.

Your firearm is your friend and your bosom buddy. You probably won't be starting out with a multi-shot firearm for balance, and getting one later is pretty iffy, so making reloading as quick and easy as possible is absolutely paramount. Take the rapid reload feat if your archetype doesn't already come with one, and take at least one rank in the Craft: Alchemy skill to make alchemical ammunition at half-cost with no crafting roll. Alchemical ammunition, which, even when it doesn't have any special powers, further reduces the time necessary to reload a weapon. Getting it down to a free action by the time you can take multiple shots per round is important. Also, when you inevitably roll a critical fumble and your gun breaks, don't be stingy with your grit. Doing a quick clear may cost you time later, but it will save your goddamn life now, and having your weapon explode will basically kill you even if you survive it.

They also manage to sidestep most MAD problems, since, although they need more WIS than the average fighter-derivative for grit points, they need less STR if they aren't lugging around an artillery piece. And even then, there's a dirt cheap magic item called Muleback Cords that can easily get around that problem. And at fifth level, they start adding their Dex to damage with their guns, essentially making them actual fighters, complete with their own version of Power Attack (Deadly Aim).

Clear this class with your GM/DM before you roll one. Gunslingers aren't really overpowered, since their abilities basically begin and end at pointing guns at bad things and making the bad things dead, they have to stay uncomfortably close for their ranged powers to actually matter, and their whole shtick can be shut down in a hurry if the enemy spellcaster summons cover or manages to get their gun wet, but they do need to be played against very differently from many other martial classes.

Most of the listed problems can be easily fixed with cheap wonderous items and weapon enchantments (+1 distance on your musket will double the range (to 80 feet) and combat feats like Cluster Shots and Improved Precise Shot remove the problem of DR and Cover. Also Alchemical Catriges can't get wet and even if the GM is smart enough to cast water on your musket just ask a caster to cast Prestidigitation (lvl0 spell) on your gun and it will be dry in less than a standard action.

Or, if you're willing to get really pulpy "science-fantasy", try and score yourself some of the technological guns from Numeria; any gun works for a gunslinger, whether it's a blackpowder musket or an ancient alien laserpistol.

Plus, a lot of DMs just aren't happy with the changes having gunslingers around would necessitate in their settings, and it is their game, after all. Paizo has ported some of the 'slinger's class features into other class variants in some of their new material, and the "Bolt Ace" archetype basically ports most of their cool stuff into crossbows, so if the mechanics sound interesting to you but the DM is unwilling, take a look.

The Classes of Pathfinder 1st Edition
Core Classes:	Barbarian - Bard - Cleric - Druid - Fighter - Monk Paladin - Ranger - Rogue - Sorcerer - Wizard
Advanced Player's Guide:	Alchemist - Antipaladin - Cavalier Inquisitor - Oracle - Summoner - Witch
Advanced Class Guide:	Arcanist - Bloodrager - Brawler - Hunter - Investigator Shaman - Skald - Slayer - Swashbuckler - Warpriest
Occult Adventures:	Kineticist - Medium - Mesmerist Occultist - Psychic - Spiritualist
Ultimate X:	Gunslinger - Magus - Ninja - Samurai - Shifter - Vigilante