Is there a way to see what type of weapon an item is in game?

[kruu]

Trying to set a gun to be able to switch between pistol and rifle by the type of stock, but I need to varify its working.

 

[Galejro]

You have to look at receiver mods for weapons such as pipe pistol. Each mod for a weapon can modify a crapton of qualities for a weapon, such as crit chance, crit damage, weapon wight, weapon price etc.

 

Pipe pistol is a weapon that upon changing the receiver can switch between being classified as pistol or rifle. So naturally looking at the qualities that those receivers do in CK will lead you to an answer.