A bit of foreward - the entirety of what I'm going to say here related to game's lore (fluff), not the actual gameplay-related questions.
As per in-game description for the weapon we have this
On the other hand, this is a type of behaviour that no privately-owned corporation would practice ever. Corporation's primary function is always to make profit for its owners. Not to push forward any type of ideology while suffering expenses and losses. This is more reinforced by the fact that Nokota Manufacturing was stated to be a start-up corporation when the D-5 was first produced.
So how this could actually become the way it is as part of the game's lore?
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PS: As for my own explanation, I could only imagine this could come this way if the D-5 Copperhead is actually not a single rifle type from a single manufacturer, but a platform, sharing the same mechanics but with different variations available.
Considering that D-05 Copperhead rifle is present during the game's 2023 flashback sequences, we can safely assume that by 2077 patents for the rifle's construction are long expired, and this is where the fun part starts.
Copperhead rifle becomes fair play for other manufacturers (ranging from Militech and Kang Tao to nomad-operated small factories) to copy and distribute on the market, and it the rifle in question is actually simple to produce and to use, while also accepting modifications easily and could.. well, become as ubiquitous as AR15 platform is in today's world. For the same reasons.
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As per in-game description for the weapon we have this
and this, as per my opinion, gives rise to the question - how this could actually come this way? The problem here comes from the fact that AK47's (and it's derivatives) heavy prolifetration owes to the fact of massive production operations, run by government-owned factories in Soviet Union and China with some of the rifles being subsenquently distributed among allied countries and communist-aligned violent non-state actors (insurgent/rebel movements).
On the other hand, this is a type of behaviour that no privately-owned corporation would practice ever. Corporation's primary function is always to make profit for its owners. Not to push forward any type of ideology while suffering expenses and losses. This is more reinforced by the fact that Nokota Manufacturing was stated to be a start-up corporation when the D-5 was first produced.
So how this could actually become the way it is as part of the game's lore?
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PS: As for my own explanation, I could only imagine this could come this way if the D-5 Copperhead is actually not a single rifle type from a single manufacturer, but a platform, sharing the same mechanics but with different variations available.
Considering that D-05 Copperhead rifle is present during the game's 2023 flashback sequences, we can safely assume that by 2077 patents for the rifle's construction are long expired, and this is where the fun part starts.
Copperhead rifle becomes fair play for other manufacturers (ranging from Militech and Kang Tao to nomad-operated small factories) to copy and distribute on the market, and it the rifle in question is actually simple to produce and to use, while also accepting modifications easily and could.. well, become as ubiquitous as AR15 platform is in today's world. For the same reasons.
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