Why does weapon not appear on actual game(appears on studio) when cloned to character?

The weapon appears on studio but not on the game itself when it is cloned to the character

EDIT: Here is my equip script

player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
playerinWorkspace = player.Character.Name
inventory = script.Parent.Parent
inv_shown = false
local itemtoReplace

function replace()
    local item = script.Parent.theItem.Value
    print(itemtoReplace)
    if item then
        if item.itemEquipped.Value == true then
            print("This is already equipped")
        else
            if item.itemType.Value == "Weapon" then
                for j,k in pairs(player.Equip:GetChildren()) do
                    if k.itemType.Value == "Weapon" then
                        local itemName = k.Name
                        k:Destroy()
                    end
                end
                wait()
                print("lmao1")
                local itemtoEquip = item:Clone()
                itemtoEquip.Parent = player.Equip
                item.itemEquipped.Value = true
                itemtoReplace.itemEquipped.Value = false
                itemtoReplace = item
            end
        end
    end
end

function itemEquip()
    local item = script.Parent.theItem.Value
    if item then
            if item:findFirstChild("itemLevel") then
                if player.Stats.Lvl.Value < item.itemLevel.Value then
                    print("Put Errror Here")
                end
            end
            local found_wep = false
            if item:findFirstChild("itemType") then
                if item.itemType.Value == "Weapon" then
                    for j,k in pairs(player.Equip:GetChildren()) do
                        if k.itemType.Value == item.itemType.Value then
                            found_wep = true
                        end
                    end
                    for j,k in pairs(player.Character:GetChildren()) do
                        if k.ClassName == "Tool" then
                            if k.itemType.Value == item.itemType.Value then
                            found_wep = true
                            end
                        end
                    end
                if found_wep == false then
                        item.itemEquipped.Value = true
                        itemtoReplace = item
                        local clon = item:Clone()
                        clon.Parent = player.Equip
                        itemtoReplace = item
                        script.Parent.Visible = false
                else
                        print("Replace? Message")
                        replace()
                        script.Parent.Visible = false

                end
            end
    end
end

function Throw() 
    local item = script.Parent.theItem.Value
    if item:findFirstChild("itemType") then
        if item.itemType.Value == "Weapon" then
            for j,k in pairs(player.Equip:GetChildren()) do
                if k.itemType.Value == item.itemType.Value then
                    k:Destroy()
                    item:Destroy()
                    script.Parent.Visible = false
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

script.Parent.Equip.MouseButton1Click:connect(itemEquip)
script.Parent.Throw.MouseButton1Click:connect(Throw)

tried manually copying a working weapon into inventory and it works fine but using scripts to copy a weapon from the lighting to the inventory makes it broken