I have quite a few planned items that will have passive benefits. For example, an exit locator that automatically reveals the exit location, as long as you have one in your inventory. With items like this in the game, equipped items taking up inventory space could eventually be a problem. So, now when you equip weapons etc, they are removed from your inventory and placed into an appropriate extra slot. These slots can be accessed by holding 'E' (right bumper on gamepad) when your inventory is open so they can be un-equipped if you need to.
