Letting us keep up our favourite weapons relevant is in line with the lore of the game. What was thorn, the last word etc before the became stuff of legend? Just guns. We will become legends through our deeds and tales of our fears with XYZ gun will be told though out the ages. Apart from the fact the won't because for some reason the bullets they fire become less effective over time because reasons and everybody has to be the same. There literally isn't any reason at all why they can't introduce a lv32 VOG with 331 weapons.