If you look at it, all the original weapons in the game contained all variants to be a placeholder for the other races.

Assault Rifle contains : *Assault*, Breach, Burst, Tactical.
Assault being the Gallente
Breach being similar to the Rail
Burst being similar to the CR
Tactical being similar to the SR

Pistol contains(ed): Basic, Assault, breach, tactical.
Basic being Amarr
Assault being like the Ion Pistol
Breach being like the Bolt Pistol
The tactical was taken off the market but is still available as random salvage in game. Two Minmitar pistols for later down the road, like a revolver?

Launchers are too racial specific of a weapon to be converted to another race being similar only to a general, umbrella category.


Sniper Rifle contains: Basic, Tactical, Charge.
Basic probably relates to the Minmitar Precision Rifle
Tactical relates to the Gallente Sniper rifle (being the shortest ranged and highest RoF one)
Charge is Caldari.

HMG of course will have different forms but none related. Just to add variety because it's the only anti-personnel heavy weapon.

Submachine gun: Basic, Assault, Breach.
Basic - Minmitar
Assault - Possibly similar to the potential Gallente SMG but probably not.
Breach - similar to Caldari Magsec


The original weapons will have a major shift once its racial variants have been deployed.
It happened with the Assault Rifle, and it's happening with the pistols.

I would assume when the full sniper variants come out (not for amarr because they have the laser rifle according to CCP)
The Tactical Sniper rifle would be similar to the Gallentes long rifle.
The Basic would go the the Minmitars Precision rifle
and Charged will probably become the bases for all Caldari sniper rifles just like all their other weapons are charged.

With all this being said, I'm sure a weapons respec will be upon us once we get full racial basic weaponry just like the suits, they won't do it now because it's not all there.

Assault Rifles: done (4/4)
Pistols: done (4/4)
Heavy weapons: 2/4
Launcher type weapons: 3/4
Long Rifles: 2/4 of the way
*Submachine guns either 2/3 or 2/4 hard to imagine Amarr with a SMG because of who they are, also there are only 3 variants of SMGs, Breach is obviously Caldari and Assault would probably be Gallente.



tl:dr So to get an idea of when we might get a respec, we are about 66% of the way there to a possible weapon respec.

P.S. Minmitar weapons due to their whole combat philosophy will naturally have many different variants of the exact same weapon so Minmitar Variants of weapons will, probably, always be more than the other races.