
When disarmed upon entering weapons-free areas, all confiscated weapons are stripped of their associated hotkeys.
This is due to a restriction placed on Lily which limits what weapons she can use, primarily limiting her to heavy weapons such as miniguns. There are only two holdout weapons which Lily Bowen is capable of using: frag grenades, and plasma grenades.
If choosing the holdout dialogue option, weapons carried by companions will be confiscated based on the player character's Sneak skill, not that of their companion(s). ↑ The unique Big Boomer is not included. ↑ The unique weathered 10mm pistol is not included. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Companion-specific variants of these weapons are not included, and will be confiscated from companion(s) (see Bugs). ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gun Runners' Arsenal normal holdout weapons are not included in the improved holdout weapon list, and will be confiscated when using the improved holdout option. Note: Melee Weapons and Unarmed damage is doubled in V.A.T.S. Note: Unique weapons are highlighted with a darker background. Note that this list does not replace the standard list of holdout weapons weapons from the standard holdout weapons list can always be brought into weapons-free areas, regardless of skill. Bonuses from temporary effects, such as ¡La Fantoma! or Stealth Boys, are counted when determining the skill level. These weapons can be brought into weapons-free areas should the Courier have a Sneak skill of 50 or higher. Improved holdout weapons See also: Fallout: New Vegas improved holdout weapons
Many of these weapons can be purchased from the merchant Mister Holdout, who can be found near the entrance of the Gomorrah casino. These weapons are always concealable and able to be brought into weapons-free areas, regardless of Sneak skill. Camp McCarran interrogation room (when interrogating Silus).The complete list of locations that confiscate weapons and allow the option to keep (improved) holdout weapons is: At certain points in the course of the game, the Courier may have their weapons confiscated from them, in which they will then be presented with an option to retain some of their weapons in the form of a dialogue option, which usually ends with the text "." Selecting this option will result in retaining a small subset of their weapons what weapons are retained depends on the Sneak skill.