Selling weps (affinity related question)

[(PSN)BeastKiller6ixx]

On the wiki page it mentions that If I sell my weapon, I lose my affinity. So do I lose all that exp? Like, I know that If i pick it up again, that particular weapon will start at level 1 but for Master rank purposes, do I lose mastery rank if I sell the wep or frame or etc ?

[Phatose]

No, mastery rank gained is permanent once earned.

[(PSN)abbacephas]

No you don't. I believe what the wiki may be talking about is the following scenario:

Say you acquire a particular weapon and rank it up to 10 or something. If you sell it, realize you didn't fully rank it up and acquire it again, you only start gaining mastery from it again after you rank it up past 10 again. So the first 10 ranks are "lost affinity", so to speak.

Make sense?

[(PSN)Shaun-T-Wilson]

It remembers the rank attaned and xp is not lost. Once sold and you get another, xp is gained only past that remembered rank.