Okay... I am going to try not to rant too much here but my plan has changed a lot.

First thing, I am creating a refined list of all the guns in SOD2. I am going to rename as many guns as I can to match their real life counter parts. I am going to add multiple variations of AR platform weapons. This includes 9mm carbines, 300 blackout carbines/rifles, and some 5.56 and 7.62x39. Lets have a MUTANT already, right? lol

Second thing, I am going to rebalance and adjust durability, swap, spread and potentially recoil of this refined list.

Change 357 rounds to 50 AE.

Change 44 Magnum to 7.62x39/300 Blackout

Completely overhaul gun crafting and require weapon remains to build custom AR-15's at base. This means changing weapon remains to AR-15 Lower receiver or potentially just Generic Gun Lower or something like that.

NEW PLAN/IDEA

COMPLETELY OVERHAUL WEAPON MODS

Chokes: Add Silencer Co Salvo 12 to chokes as a suppressor (adv. suppressor but for shotguns only)
Brakes: Rename to Rifle Caliber Muzzle Attachments. Completely change the brakes, suppressors and compensators and what they do. 
Suppressors: Rename to Pistol Caliber Muzzle Attachments. Completely change the brakes, suppressors and compensators and what they do.
Remove the ability to add a muzzle attachment to every gun. Not every gun has a threaded barrel in real life so why do they all have it in SOD2? lol
Remove the ability to mod revolvers all together.
Remove the ability to craft pro/adv attachments. They will be loot only and come on a variety of weapons. You will be able to craft cool attachments but they will be worse than the looted version, because realism and balance.

This is all WIP and will need tested heavily, but I am just pumped that I can do something substantial with guns and their mods. WOO!

Edit 7-21-2024
Unfortunately adding fully custom gun and gun mod files did not work out as intended so I am going to limit the scope of this mod a bit. But thats okay, however I won't be able to have as many custom attachments as I wanted. I still believe it will be possible to separate them a bit and make the more specific but we will see, still planing it all out.