Other How can I check if a player has a weapon equipped serverside?

Alright, this snippet detects whether a player has a pistol in their inventory. This code is being run server-side from an ent's init.lua

Code:

-- v is defined earlier in the file
local inventory = v:GetInventory() 
local contra = Clockwork.inventory:GetItemsByID(inventory,"weapon_pistol") 

if (contra ~= {}) then
    Clockwork.player:NotifyAll("Faggot has pistol") -- debug
    Clockwork.player:NotifyAll(Clockwork.json:Encode(contra)) -- debug
end

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to detect if the pistol is simply sitting in the player's inventory or if it's equipped, and I can't figure it out. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Code:

if (contra ~= {}) then

That will never be false because a table is only equal to itself.

 

Yeah, I realized that a few days ago, but that isn't the issue and it doesn't really have any effect on what I'm trying to do at the moment, so I just left it in. I'm trying to figure out how to check if an item is equipped, do you have anything that is more pertinent to my question?