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Modern Warfare 2: How To Unlock Guns (Gunsmith 2.0 Guide)

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Players of Modern Warfare 2 are looking to unlock guns the game has to offer. This closely ties to the new Gunsmith 2.0 mechanism that it introduces. But how it works can be a bit confusing at the beginning. So in this guide let us check how gunsmith 2.0 works and find out how to unlock guns in CoD Modern Warfare 2.

How to Unlock Guns in Modern Warfare 2

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You can unlock new guns in CoD Modern Warfare II using the gunsmith 2.0 feature of the game. The weapons in this game work as a platform of weapons. This is basically a family of weapons. The goal is to keep playing with a single weapon and leveling it up. This will allow you to unlock the Receiver for it.  And when you unlock the receiver for your first weapon, it will unlock the next weapon for you. The best part is the modifications you unlock for your first weapon, will also work on the new weapon.

For example, let us say you have FSS Hurricane. When you keep playing with it and increase its level to level 13 you unlock M16. So now you get to take over all your modifications from your FSS Hurricane and can use it on your M16.

Thus in order to unlock new guns in the game, you have to keep playing with the guns you have. As you level up it will automatically unlock the next gun in its family or platform.

Also Read | All Weapons List For CoD Modern Warfare 2

Which weapons can you unlock in MW2?

You cannot gunsmith every weapon in the game during Beta, so here are all the weapons that you can gunsmith to unlock:

  • M4
  • M16
  • Lachmann-556
  • FSS Hurricane
  • Lachmann Sub
  • Lachmann-762
  • FTAC Recon
  • LM-S
  • RAPP H
  • 556 Icarus

That covers this guide on how to unlock guns in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, and how the Gunsmith 2.0 works. I suggest you also check out our Modern Warfare II section. Here you can get help on several topics like the new modes that are DMZ and Raid or find error fixes for Error Code HUENEME, Matchmaking Lobby, WOLTERS-FRANCIS Timed Out error, and more.

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