this has been a question i have been wondering for a while. is there a mod that makes the modifications/ attachments to weapons not permanent? or is there a way to implement this?

There was one that allowed you to repair your guns at a bench and just replaced the gun with a new pristine gun and a mod kit, if I recall (this is per combination of mods and thus adds a lot of recipes to the bench).
No other method has been found yet as far as I know.

If we're thinking of the same one, then it didn't work as advertised, unfortunately. At the moment there is (to the best of my knowledge) no way to find out what mods are attached to a weapon using scripts, meaning no way to remove them. Well... no way to remove them and not 'destroy' the weapon mods in the process, I guess.

What a bummer.. :/
What has changed from FO3 to FONV?
Isn't the engine the same, I'm using your WMK for FO3 and IIRC you can remove the mods from weapons in that.

:ph34r: by Razor

But yes, what did change from F)3 to NV Antistar?

bigcrazewolf

Fallout 3 weapon mod kits really just swapped your current weapon for one with whatever mod kit you put on. New Vegas mod kits are both a core part of the game, and modify a weapon without replacing it with a new one. And Obsidian didn't even add a way to detect attached mods with scripts, let alone remove them

They shouldve just hired Antistar to do it right for them

Well, for starters, the weapon mods are part of the actual form, instead of a kludged system of similar but different weapon forms. No NVSE-enabled form list index comparisons are needed any more. Unfortunately, there exists no way to detect which mods are active on the weapon in the gamesave, either in vanilla or NVSE-provided script functions.

In simpler terms... a LOT.