How to access data from a table?

For reasons to not exceed the 50kb/s remote event/function data transfer, I made tables used a coding system for guns. For example, instead of having:

["AK47"] = {Damage = 40, ReloadTime = 3}

I made it:

[1] = {GunName = "AK47", Damage = 40, ReloadTime = 3}

But how my gun scripts work is that it uses the tool name to search for the stats within the table so I can easily just put:

gunDamage = gunModule[toolName["Damage"]]

But since I used a coding system, I am forced to name said tool to "1" instead of "AK47". I would rather not for an in pairs function to cycle through the gun codes and see which gunCode[GunName] matches the tool name and then breaks the loop signifying it has found it. This may be a lil confusing but I hope someone could help.