That is not is, the "Dots" are vertexes, a triangle is a face, Polygons are different in each program. A Polygon in 3DS is a 4 sided face, where in Milkshape a triangle is a polygon. Polys should always be referred in Triangle rather then squares.
Also FYI weapons should be under a thousand and in the 300-600 Range max.
I had Ephi's flamethrower around here some were. I'll find it and post the poly count after school. It was 800 or something like that (I had to use a long complicated method across three programs two of wich being glitchy demos to import the torque files (.dts) into something useable but I did it for a couple weapons because I wanted to see the average polly count).
