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Not in widespread use, but they have the designs for a pretty badass sniper rifle that uses a transporter to beam the bullet past obstacles and place it directly in front of the target, paired with a headset that can see through walls.
Now that I think of it, they also established in first contact that kinetic weapons are effective against the borg, since Worf's blade and Picard's holographic tommy gun were able to get past the borg defenses. Seems like maybe they should have replicated some guns and ammo, or possibly just taken some from the planet below.
Holographic bullets aren't really ballistic. The borg might have been able to adapt. Though if they were fooled by holograms and force fields, an anti-borg program could have been made that makes them get stuck in an endless non-euclidean maze (and I mean one of the interesting non-euclidean spaces) or just tear them apart by having dozens of force fields pop up through their bodies.
With all of the hologram projectors they had in Voyager, not to mention the portable one, they really didn't explore the tactical advantages they could give. You could literally make any boarding party believe they had transported to hell, or let them run around thinking they are winning and took over the ship when they are actually just standing around in the brig--or airlock.
Or have them board only to hear "warp core damage critical, breach in zero point--" then give them some kind of afterlife sequence where they settle into their new afterlife and pass time telling each other about state secrets they were privy to, now that it doesn't matter anymore.
It's kinda funny that they had holograms but didn't really ever explore any post-facts kind of themes, other than using holograms on less advanced species.
Hmm, considering the paranoia of the Cold War and beyond, there's likely several dozen bunkers in North America loaded to the gills with armaments.
I know, the gif is from Hot Fuzz in the UK, but it gets the point across.