Shotgun
Assault Rifle
Plasma Cannon
Sniper Rifle

nothing that is a side arm as of yet >...>

So true. I hope racial symmetry is added ASAP.

Me wants the rail AR and snipe ya'all.

The rail rifle is already in the game, it's called the sniper rifle. There will not necessarily be a rail/blaster type for every weapon type. As an example, in eve, the railguns are the long range weapons, and the blasters are short range - in the hybrid category. For the projectile category, you have autocannons as the short range version, and artillery as the long range version. This will likely appear in Dust, for instance, as some kind of artillery rifle for long range sniping/bombardment, and we already have the autocannon as a short range weapon.

So, there are long range and short range variants on the major weapon types, which are - Hybrid, Projectile, Laser.

Don't be such a debbie downer.At fanfest CCP explained that every basic weapon concept will have all four racial versions. So everyone gets "some" kind of sniper rifle, AR, SMG etc.

OK, I didn't know this. I guess they're splitting the rail/blaster along caldari/gallente lines whereas in Eve, they both share Hybrid.