Boone lost his rifle

[OutoftheLoop]

I was doing Beyond the Beef with Boone, and went I cam back out. his Hunting rifle, as well as the others, were gone from his inventory. quick saved outside the strip. hard save was near Cottonwood cove before storming the camp.
Could just get him another with all the bells and whistles, if it weren't for the gunrunners, not selling any.
so my only choices are to, revert back to a previous save, or buy him another rifle and keep playing.

[Fluffy_Llama]

Weapons can be shot out of NPCs hands and this includes your followers, super annoying with large weapons like miniguns because of their large hit boxes. Stewie Tweaks has a option to disable it for followers. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66347

[Amanoob105]

Did you enter Gomorrah at anytime recently? When you weapons are stripped from you, they are also stripped from your companions but due to a bug, unlike with you, they aren't given back when you leave.

[Death Approaches]

wait how long have you been playing, you've never had a companion get disarmed or over-use and break a weapon, even that fancy unique you gave them, and swap it for something else, or go into a location where a good weapon is, a fight breaks out, and the weapon is now gone (cause your follower picked it up if it's got a higher damage than theirs?)

That's freakin' amazing. I love it! But yes all these things do happen, you can do what you did, revert a save, but if it's been hours and it's something you really want back, just use the console. That's exactly what it's for.

[JDC UK]

If you lost them in a casino you could still get them back from the weapon lockers using console commands.
You'd need to identify which casino that they lost them in and which secondary companions you've had with you.

This should show which safe still has items inside.

Ultra-Luxe

prid 16569d
inv
prid 16569e
inv

Gomorrah

prid 12795b
inv
prid 1287fe
inv

The Tops

prid 128595
inv
prid 127d85
inv

Now you'd need to use the safe's ID and your current companion's ID.
For example. this will get the items from Gomorrah's safe back to Boone.

"12795b".RemoveAllItems 96bce

If the frisking trigger has stopped working use these and your companions should get their default weapons back eventually...

set "128588".PlayerFrisked to 0 
set "10d2c6".bPlayerFrisked to 0
set "10c721".iInGomorrah to 0
set "b16d0".bWeaponCheck to 1

[Fluffy_Llama]

JDC's comment should be pinned or added to the help section.

[OutoftheLoop]

Originally posted by JDC UK:

If you lost them in a casino you could still get them back from the weapon lockers using console commands.
You'd need to identify which casino that they lost them in and which secondary companions you've had with you.

This should show which safe still has items inside.

Ultra-Luxe

prid 16569d
inv
prid 16569e
inv

Gomorrah

prid 12795b
inv
prid 1287fe
inv

The Tops

prid 128595
inv
prid 127d85
inv

Now you'd need to use the safe's ID and your current companion's ID.
For example. this will get the items from Gomorrah's safe back to Boone.

"12795b".RemoveAllItems 96bce

If the frisking trigger has stopped working use these and your companions should get their default weapons back eventually...

set "128588".PlayerFrisked to 0 
set "10d2c6".bPlayerFrisked to 0
set "10c721".iInGomorrah to 0
set "b16d0".bWeaponCheck to 1

I already backtracked to a previous save and took the weapons off him. but later, I got so pissed because I can into a bug with the Great Khauns and allying with the NCR. resolved with console commands.
next time I'm just gonna eliminate them.