if i start on a later level where im already supposed to have a gun, I get a vr gun, but enemies drop regular non-vr guns.

I say this a lot, but it often ends up being the problem;
Make sure you only have this mod and it's requirements installed and enabled, uninstall or deactivate any and all other mods you have and try again.

its a fresh install of GMOD, and I did disable the 2 game modes that were showing up in addons that werent for this

You aren't, by any chance, trying to use this alongside VNN's HL2 VR collection are you? Because there's a decent chance using that collection in combination with my mod would break everything.

Lotta people assume his collection has something to do with this mod and or is to be used with this mod, but that definitely is not the case.

If you're not using VNN's collection, then I don't know what to tell you. Unless you're getting an error code in the console there's not really anything I can do about it.

no im not using anything, I had 2 character models that i uninstalled and 2 game modes in my addons that i disabled and everything else in there is all the mods needed for this.

I'm seeing this error in the console over and over, nothing else otherwise.

File exists in two addons - possible conflicts! lua/autorun/vrutil.lua (VRMod and arcvr)

[ERROR] lua/weapons/arcticvr_base/shooting.lua:66: attempt to index field 'pose_righthand' (a nil value)
1. IsStabilizing - lua/weapons/arcticvr_base/shooting.lua:66
2. v - lua/autorun/cl_arcticvr.lua:103
3. Call - lua/includes/modules/hook.lua:84
4. VRUtilHandleTracking - lua/autorun/vrutil.lua:312
5. v - lua/autorun/vrutil.lua:406
6. unknown - lua/includes/modules/hook.lua:84

I'm also just using the gamemode + it's dependencies and yet it doesn't use the VR guns. Kudos for the rest tho, works good.

yeah, everything seems to work minus the VR hud and the enemies dropping VR Guns

I think the newest VRMod update may have broken Arctic's VR Half-Life 2 Weapons, I'll try to look into the situation when I can.