Ok, so it turns out that Bobby Rays will NOT update his inventory with an item later in the game if an item was "illegal" (coolness = 0, or biggunlist or scifi tags don't match up with game settings) when the game was started. Since vanilla JA2, the items were simply filtered out of his inventory and never had a chance to be added later. This looks like it was yet another a lame way to save memory

Anyway, I have fixed BR's now (exe 426 on SVN) so that if an item tag is updated, then BR's will start stocking the item properly in future days. However, to see the effects of this change work, you will need to start a new game The arrays have already been initialized in existing games, and I can't reset them without screwing up other things.

one more quick fix (427, available now). I disabled the notbuyable flag and itemclass = 0 filter when setting up the initial inventory too. This means that we can now add new items and see them show up at BR's in existing games, as well as change whatever tags we like.

This last update should help alleviate some problems, since the lack of BR updates have been a big problem for players since the new armour upgrades came out and they weren't purchasable without restarting.