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I thought that a sandbox was the some totality of all the fun things that you could do and use in a game.
I thought that the term game from a child's sandbox - a shallow box filled with sand that children play in. (Maybe they are an American thing because I've never seen one in the UK.)
So the game is, metaphorically, a sandbox in which you play. The weapons are part of the sandbox but so is the physics system, the AI, etc.