Bongo-- the reason why guardians/berserkers and swashbucklers/brigands out-dps us with autoattack ranged attacks is due to their double attack AAs. For every bow attack you are doing, they are doing 2 attacks. And if they have procs applied, if one doesn't go off on the first attack, it has a chance to go off on the second attack. Our AA to have a chance to crit our bow attacks doesn't come close to making up the difference.
So guardians/berserkers and swashbucklers/brigands simply smoke us in ranged dps (autoattack). For that matter, given the rather puny damage on most of our ranged CAs, unless sniper shot or rain of arrows CAs are available, they would out-dps us even if we counted our ranged CA damage.
Now can I point to a thread where a dev said this? Of course not. I think SoE is oblivious to the issue. This all goes into the mix as to why Rangers are currently out-dps'd by so many so-called tier-2 and tier-3 classes in raid environments. If a ranger only solos or groups, then issues such as this are invisible since these classes tend to perform their more customary roles. In a raid environment, however, these classes can often perform a dps role (such as a non-tanking berserker) and the weaknesses of ranger dps becomes apparent.