Forum:Question about the Violator

I have a question about how the damage works with the Violator legendary pistol. It does three round burst, but fires three bullets with each round used, effectively firing 9 bullets with each pull of the trigger. My question is since the stat card says 73 x3, does that mean that each "cluster" of three bullets does 73 damage? Or does each of the 9 bullets fired do 73 damage, making the damage equation 73 x3 x3?