GTA 6 Weapons List: Every Confirmed Gun and What We Know About Each One

Over 30 weapons are confirmed or visible in official GTA 6 material so far, and the system carrying them is a bigger departure from GTA 5 than the weapon list itself. Rockstar has rebuilt how weapons are carried, stored, and customized, borrowing directly from Red Dead Redemption 2's inventory approach rather than sticking with GTA 5's unlimited-carry weapon wheel.

GTA 5 shipped with roughly 40 weapons across a decade of updates, most carried simultaneously with no real cost to doing so. GTA 6's confirmed list is comparable in raw count this early, but the carrying system built around it is designed to make loadout choice actually matter — you can't bring everything to every job anymore.

This article covers every weapon confirmed through official trailers, Rockstar screenshots, and the Ultimate Edition reveal — sourced individually below — plus a handful of melee items visible in footage whose wieldable status Rockstar hasn't confirmed either way.

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New Weapon System — How Carrying Works in GTA 6

GTA 5's weapon wheel let Michael, Franklin, and Trevor carry essentially every weapon in the game simultaneously, no capacity limit. Rockstar has confirmed GTA 6 moves away from that entirely with a satchel-style inventory — limited carry capacity, meaning Jason and Lucia can no longer hold an entire arsenal at once.

Extra weapons don't just disappear, though. Rockstar has confirmed vehicle trunk storage lets you stash additional weapons in a car and swap loadouts before a job — the same basic idea Red Dead Redemption 2 used for its horse saddlebags, adapted to GTA 6's vehicles instead.

The weapon wheel itself has been redesigned, though Rockstar hasn't detailed exactly how the new UI differs beyond confirming it's changed. Underwater combat has also been improved, which matters directly for one confirmed weapon below — the speargun.

Weapon customization is confirmed as a real system, not just a cosmetic afterthought: engravings, scopes, and grip stylings are all visible across the confirmed weapon list, most visibly on the Ultimate Edition items covered further down.

Handguns

Girardi ES9

Jason's signature sidearm, a semi-automatic pistol. The base Girardi ES9 ships in Standard Edition for every player. A personalized, engraved variant is Ultimate Edition exclusive — same gun, different cosmetic finish.

Giving each protagonist a distinct, named signature sidearm is a departure from GTA 5, where Michael, Franklin, and Trevor all pulled from the same shared pistol pool with no character-specific weapon identity. Jason and Lucia each getting their own named gun suggests weapon choice is tied to character identity in a way GTA 5 never bothered with (speculation on the design intent — the two distinct named pistols are confirmed).

Klose K17

Lucia's signature sidearm, a Glock-style pistol confirmed to have a full-auto fire configuration — notable, since full-auto handguns have been rare in past GTA titles. Like the Girardi ES9, the base Klose K17 is in Standard Edition; a personalized engraved variant is Ultimate Edition exclusive.

A full-auto pistol as a signature weapon is a meaningfully different combat profile than a standard semi-auto sidearm — closer to a compact SMG than a typical handgun. Pairing that with Lucia specifically, rather than Jason, is a confirmed detail worth noting even without Rockstar explaining the reasoning behind the choice.

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Mustang .357

A revolver visible in an official biker-scene screenshot, with a name visibly engraved on the side. Rockstar hasn't provided additional detail beyond the screenshot appearance.

Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers

Ultimate Edition exclusive. A his-and-hers pair with palm-tree grips, Vercetti Estate engravings, and a high-performance scope. These do not appear in Standard Edition and are not part of the Vintage Vice City Pack pre-order bonus — Ultimate Edition only.

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Shotguns

Double-Barreled Shotgun

A long-barreled double-barreled shotgun — an unusually long-barreled configuration for the series — confirmed via an official screenshot showing a character fending off an alligator in the swamps. Rockstar hasn't provided a model name beyond the visual confirmation.

That specific screenshot context matters: a shotgun shown defending against wildlife, rather than in a firefight against other characters, is the clearest confirmed evidence yet that GTA 6's swamp and wetland zones involve actual environmental hazards, not just scenery (speculation on scope — the screenshot and weapon itself are confirmed).

Second Shotgun (Model Unconfirmed)

A second, distinct shotgun is visible in official screenshots. Rockstar hasn't disclosed a model name for this one yet — it's confirmed present, not confirmed by name. Two distinct shotgun models this early suggests the category gets more than a single generic option, consistent with how GTA 5 split its shotgun category into multiple distinct models rather than one catch-all weapon.

Assault Rifles and Carbines

Carbine Rifle

Two possible carbine variants have turned up in official material — one resembling the GTA 5-era Carbine Rifle, held by Raul Bautista in trailer footage, and one resembling the GTA 4-era model, held by Jason in an official screenshot. These may be two separate weapons, or trailer/screenshot footage of the same weapon at different points in development. Treat this as "possibly two variants, confirmed by screenshot evidence" rather than two officially confirmed distinct weapons — Rockstar hasn't clarified either way.

Raul Bautista holding one of these in trailer footage is consistent with his confirmed role as a logistics specialist handling heist planning — a character built around organizing jobs rather than pure combat still being shown armed suggests he's not purely a background planner (speculation on his combat role — the trailer appearance holding the weapon is confirmed). Full detail on Raul and every other confirmed GTA 6 character is in GTA 6 Characters: Every Confirmed Name, Role, and Detail.

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Springfield M1A

Held by a mud-covered hunter character in an official screenshot, alongside a separate sniper weapon. Confirmed present by name via that screenshot. The Springfield M1A is a real-world battle rifle design, and its pairing with a hunter character rather than a criminal or law-enforcement figure suggests hunting is a distinct activity type in GTA 6's rural zones, separate from the game's core criminal missions (speculation — not confirmed by Rockstar).

Sniper Rifles

Bolt-Action Rifle

Visible in official screenshots of hunter characters in wooded terrain, with a large scope attached. Rockstar hasn't disclosed further specs. Bolt-action rifles have historically been the slower-firing, higher-precision option in past GTA sniper categories, and the wooded, hunting-adjacent context here is consistent with that same role.

Assault Sniper Rifle

Spotted leaning against a character's leg in an official screenshot. Confirmed present, with limited additional detail beyond that appearance. Pairing a bolt-action rifle with a faster-firing "assault sniper" variant mirrors GTA 5's own two-tier sniper category (standard Sniper Rifle plus Heavy Sniper), suggesting GTA 6 is keeping a similar precision-vs-rate-of-fire split within the category rather than collapsing it into one weapon.

SMGs and Machine Guns

MP5 Variant (Heckler & Koch)

Both Jason and Lucia are shown dual-wielding this weapon during a robbery scene in trailer footage — notable since dual-wielding SMGs has been an inconsistent feature across past GTA titles, and its confirmed appearance here suggests it's a real, usable mechanic rather than a one-off cutscene visual (speculation on the gameplay implication — the dual-wield trailer moment itself is confirmed).

Combat MG

An LMG-class weapon that appears inside an in-game televised gun-store commercial shown in Trailer 2 — a detail that also confirms GTA 6 has in-world TV advertising for weapons, consistent with the series' long-running satirical media segments. Seeing a weapon advertised through an in-fiction commercial, rather than just sitting in a gun store's shelf inventory, points to Rockstar building out the same brand of media satire around firearms that GTA 5 built around radio ads and billboards (speculation on scope — the commercial itself and the weapon shown in it are confirmed).

Throwables and Tactical Equipment

Speargun

Confirmed directly by Rockstar for underwater combat use. This lines up with the broader underwater combat improvements mentioned earlier — a dedicated underwater weapon suggests underwater encounters are a real, designed-for scenario in GTA 6, not an edge case the engine merely tolerates (speculation on scope — the speargun itself and underwater combat improvements are both confirmed).

Grenades and Molotovs

Standard throwable-category weapons are visible in trailer footage, consistent with what every mainline GTA title has shipped with. Rockstar hasn't issued a dedicated confirmation beyond what's visible on screen, but there's no indication this category is being cut or changed.

Possible Melee Weapons

Rockstar has not confirmed any of the following as player-wieldable weapons — they're visible in trailer or screenshot footage as environmental objects or props, and whether they function as actual combat items is unconfirmed either way.

• Pool cue — visible in Cal Hampton's billiards-hall scene with Jason. May be a cutscene prop only, with no combat function (speculation — not confirmed by Rockstar).
• Baseball bat, hammer, mini golf club — all visible somewhere in trailer footage. Wield status as an actual weapon is unconfirmed.
• Switchblade — possibly associated with Lucia, visible near the Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers in official Ultimate Edition imagery. Unconfirmed as a separate wieldable item.

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Melee weapons have been a consistent GTA staple since the earliest 3D-era titles, so it would be unusual for GTA 6 to drop the category entirely. But "unusual to cut" isn't the same as "confirmed to exist" — every item on this list is genuinely unconfirmed as an actual usable weapon, and this article treats it that way rather than assuming continuity with past titles.

Ultimate Edition Weapons — What's Exclusive

Quick reference for what's actually locked behind Ultimate Edition versus what every GTA 6 player gets regardless of edition:

• Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers — Ultimate Edition exclusive. Not in Standard, not in the Vintage Vice City Pack.
• Personalized Girardi ES9 — Ultimate Edition exclusive engraved variant. The base Girardi ES9 ships in Standard Edition for everyone.
• Personalized Klose K17 — Ultimate Edition exclusive engraved variant. The base Klose K17 ships in Standard Edition for everyone.
• Every other weapon on this list — Mustang .357, both shotguns, both carbine variants, Springfield M1A, both sniper rifles, the MP5 variant, Combat MG, speargun, and throwables — is not tied to any edition and is available regardless of which version you buy.

For the complete confirmed vs. exclusive breakdown across vehicles, shops, and missions — not just weapons — see GTA 6 Ultimate Edition vs. Standard. The Vintage Vice City Pack pre-order bonus does not include any weapon beyond a cosmetic tropical pattern skin, covered in full in GTA 6 Vintage Vice City Pack: Every Item Included.