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This may seem odd but it came up in a game the other day and I gave him the ruling since I couldn't find a good argument against it.

Distilled Down / Simplified
In a unit of 10 Necron Warriors, each one has a Gauss Flayer. If an enemy unit is hit by 7 shots from the Warrior unit, would it be true to say that the enemy unit was hit by 7 weapons?


Reason why this matters
My opponent played DE Mandrakes which have a shooting attack, per model, that is Assault 2, Pinning. Per the rules of pinning, a test is required after the target unit takes an unsaved wound from a weapon with the Pinning special rule. Based on the wording and the simplified logic, we rolled each Mandrake separately to identify how many models/weapons inflicted an unsaved wound.

Did we do this correct? I know there's a number of other multi-weapon Pinning scenarios like the above out there (like snipers and the dakkajet) and am curious if we played it properly as it's different than I usually play it but find myself having a hard time finding an argument of rolling everything together and only taking a single test.

Read 4th paragraph of Pinning USR (including the italics fluff). Therein lies your simple answer.

Thanks. Completely glanced over that the other night. Good to know since rolling everything separately was REALLY slow and annoying.