This, unfortunately, seem to have been the case, with no way of removing the modified pistol from the game without crashing the game in the process. This save will most likely need to be abandoned. Thank you for the response and insight on my issue.
Version: 0.9.048-PUBLIC#3209 Message: ZKRifle requires it's canMergeWith call to be overridden if it has dynamic properties. Stack:
TiTSException: ZKRifle requires it's canMergeWith call to be overridden if it has dynamic properties.
at r...