Note that in True / Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, you can access the Bank near the start of the game at Claptrap's Place, Windshear Waste. Retrieving an SDU will unlock a weapon equip slot. Then, in the game, go to the Bank and retrieve the Weapon Equip Slot SDUs.
Alternatively, you can set your character to match another character's exact experience points by entering the other character's experience points in the 'Experience Points' field and then clicking on the 'Sync' button of the 'Experience Level' field. In the 'General' tab, type in the level you want the character to be in the 'Experience Level' field, and then click on the 'Sync' button of the 'Experience Points' field to automatically compute the appropriate experience points for that level.
With Gibbed's Borderlands 2 Save Game editor, open up the save game file of the character that you would like to edit and make the following changes: Setting a character's level