I found that, too. I was going to make a noob and do the unlocks/skills in a better way after I learned the system some on my first account.. but as soon as I unlocked at level 5, I had a feline with silencer and some advanced modules.
The worst part is, since those are shared, if you change the gear for the lower level account, it is the low level gear on your higher guy when you switch logins... and the only way to switch it back is to find a damn empty server, log in, customize gear, log out to save the changes, then find a server to play on.
I finally gave up and am sticking to the original account.. I've gotten far enough that I've fixed all my earlier mistakes (most everything is unlocked now) so it really doesn't matter.
Oh, and I tried making a new profile on my PC (as opposed to an online account) and scared the hell out of myself.. I named it the same as my initial online account to see if it would clean up the unlock thing.. it didn't.. so I deleted the local profile while logged into the second online account, and when I logged back into the original online account, everything suggested I was back to level 1!! -- quit the game and logged back in clean and it was all there (pulled back from online).. Talk about a pucker moment until the game reloaded

Seems a lot of details were glossed over (like not being able to customize your loadouts without being on a server).. My first exposure to CryTek isn't turning out to be wonderful.