Not sure what's going on, but I can't get the guns to show on screen no matter what I do.. I even tried a brand new cfg (not mine) just to see but no luck.
If you are sure that the gun model is not outside the window (as mapamapa mentioned) then it sounds like your weaponconfig commands is the problem. If you have the cg_drawgun in your weaponconfig line (i.e.: cg_weaponconfig_rl) then it will overrule whatever you change the command to manually. It won't even work temporarily.