While going back into the Matrix to save Morpheus, Neo and Trinity are sent to a huge room with lots and lots of guns, but in terms of technological level, they are all the same types of guns that agents or the military would have access to in the simulated world of the matrix.
In the 'real world', there are a few scenes before that where we see Cypher using a huge futuristic laser to take out two of his collegues.
Why don't Neo and Trinity take something like that into the Matrix? Even the agents don't have a gun like that.
From my understanding of the story, when Morpheus and his team enter the Matrix, they are not entering through the regular channel that the machines use to keep the humans in the simulated reality, rather they are hacking into the Matrix, and so are able to track their position from Morpheus's ship as well as obtain as much guns and ammunition as they want. Why can't they take a more advanced futuristic gun with them?
Answer
Matrix is a world with rules. There are laws of nature written into the simulation.
Those weapons on the racks are nothing more than programs written by the Zion rebels. As such those programs exist within those rules and laws of nature imposed by the operating environment where they function (Matrix).
As an example: I can use a nuke to kill everyone in a city in real world. But when I play World of Warcraft, I cannot - because WoW designers didn't provide that functionality to me with my level of access (however, THEY can write a WoW spell or back-end script to do that! which explains the advanced bug technology that you indicated was anachronistic).
To bring the example more ontopic - imagine that Matrix programmers wrote the OS such that nuclear fission is impossible. Or even simply that there are no fissionable materials in the Matrix in the needed amount. Then - even if it's possible - and Morpheus knows it's possible - they can not create a Nuke to use in the Matrix.
Yes, some well trained people are able to bend those rules a little (Morpheus seems the most capable). But only a little. They still mostly follow the rules of the Matrix.
The only exception is The One (Neo) - he could theoretically create any weapon he wanted. But by the time he grabs the guns he hasn't even learned to jump between buildings like Morpheus, or to do bullet time (yet). He only realizes his power after the gunrack scene, on the building roof.
Bending reality by wielding a fictional weapon is entirely beyond his ability in that specific scene.
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