Well, just a few facts:
Many old players / low id's are waiting for v9 and espeacily RTB, as both will solve many problems (Wrong installed AddOns, Chaos in AddOn organizing (both in the forum and in blockland itself) and community function that are demanded continuesly (buddy list, chat, who is playing on a server? etc.)
This way, old players will come back, and play again, as they have better ways communicating with each other, and also, finding servers that seem to have a proper quality.
What has this to do with the weapon problem? Well, it's quite simple,
you can avoid it.