GTA 6 weapons list: every gun and melee weapon shown so far

Rockstar has never published a weapons list for Grand Theft Auto VI. Everything known about the arsenal comes from four official drops: Trailer 1 in December 2023, Trailer 2 in May 2025, the batch of 63 screenshots that arrived with the pre-order announcement in June 2026, and the roughly 26-minute Extended Look that premiered in August 2026.¹²³⁴

What Rockstar has actually named

Only three weapons carry names straight from Rockstar. The Ultimate Edition material names Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia's Klose K17 pistol as personalised sidearms with engraved detailing, and it lists his-and-hers Hawk & Little Morgan revolvers styled after Vice City and described as sourced from the Vercetti Estate.⁵⁶⁷ Everything else on this site is an identification made from a logo, a silhouette or a manufacturer mark, not a confirmation.⁸⁹

Who identified the rest

PC Gamer counted 19 distinct firearms across both trailers and the screenshot sets by late June 2026, and deliberately left melee weapons out because it is hard to tell which ones are usable.⁸ GamesRadar keeps a running list that was updated in late August 2026 to add the Duke 556 assault rifle, the Moreland 850 shotgun, a pump action shotgun and a Molotov, all of them from the Extended Look.⁹ Both outlets note the same shift: where GTA 5 mostly used generic class names, several GTA 6 guns carry brand names and model numbers stamped on the hardware.⁸⁹

Phil's Ammu-Nation is the biggest single haul

At 2:09 in Trailer 2 a television advert plays for Phil's Ammu-Nation, fronted by a mullet-sporting dealer who fans identified as Phil Cassidy, a character from earlier Grand Theft Auto games.¹⁰¹¹¹² The wall behind him is packed: AK-pattern rifles in several configurations, AR-15-style rifles, roughly a dozen SMG-shaped weapons, pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns, and a large customised light machine gun that Phil picks up and fires.¹¹⁸ None of those wall guns have been named, and it is not clear how many are separate weapons rather than one base weapon with different attachments.⁸

How the weapons behave

The Extended Look showed a familiar weapon wheel during play, weapons being picked up off the ground mid-fight, a slow-motion aiming mode that highlights points on an enemy's body, one-handed shotgun reloads and shooting out of moving cars.¹³¹⁴ Jason is also shown shooting an enemy's legs to put him down without killing him.¹⁴ On the customisation side, the Vintage Vice City pre-order pack applies a tropical pattern inspired by Tommy Vercetti's shirt to most guns, and the garages bundled with pre-order vehicles include a weapon locker.⁶⁷

Extended Look: how the weapon wheel and aiming actually work

Rockstar's August 27, 2026 Extended Look devoted several full firefights to showing combat, and outlets who watched it in full describe the same core loop: Jason and Lucia use cover, pick weapons up off downed enemies mid-fight, and swap between two carried firearms with a single button press instead of always opening the wheel.¹⁶¹⁹ Push Square and Engadget both single out the target-range sequence where Lucia moves from a rifle to her pistol without a pause in the action as the clearest demonstration of that change.¹⁶¹⁹

Aiming changed along with it. SlashGear reports that auto-aim is gone entirely in favor of a fully manual system with optional aim-assist, a departure from the lock-on aiming GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 both leaned on.¹⁸ Layered on top of that is a slow-motion targeting ability, Jason's version of the bullet-time move Michael De Santa used in GTA V, which multiple outlets describe consistently: time slows, and the game marks red zones over an enemy's chest and head for a lethal shot and yellow zones over joints such as knees, elbows and hands for a shot that disables without killing.^13141819

The presentation also showed one-handed reloading while carrying loot bags, peek-and-shoot cover fire from apartment hallways, and shootouts spilling into moving vehicles, with characters firing out of windows at pursuing police cars and a helicopter during a chase.¹⁷¹⁹ eXputer's recap adds a disarming option, where an accurate shot knocks a weapon out of an enemy's hands instead of hitting a kill zone, and a suppression option where shots fired near an NPC intimidate them during a robbery.¹⁷

Branded guns instead of class names: what changed from GTA 5

GTA 5 named almost its entire arsenal after weapon classes: assault rifle, carbine rifle, pistol, sniper rifle. GTA 6 breaks from that in a way both PC Gamer and GamesRadar call out directly: several guns carry a manufacturer name and a model number stamped on the hardware itself, the same way Rockstar already handles vehicle badges.⁸⁹ The Girardi ES9 and Klose K17 pistols, the Hawk & Little Morgan revolver and the Duke 556 assault rifle are the clearest examples, each pairing a fictional gunmaker with something that reads like a real product line.⁶¹

It is a smaller shift than it first looks, though. Community trackers such as GTABase still default to GTA 5-style class labels for anything without a legible logo, because most of what is visible across the trailers and screenshots carries no on-screen text at all.¹⁵ The branding so far looks concentrated on hero weapons the story cares about, the protagonists' personal sidearms and named rifles, rather than applied evenly across the whole arsenal.⁶⁹

How big does a Rockstar arsenal get? A look at GTA V and Online

There is no official GTA 6 weapon count to measure against, but the series' recent history gives a sense of scale. GTA Online launched alongside GTA V in 2013 and kept expanding its arsenal for more than a decade of free updates: 2015's Lowriders update introduced the machete and the machine pistol, 2017's Gunrunning update brought a wave of military-grade weapons, 2018's After Hours added the Stone Hatchet, 2019's Diamond Casino Heist added the Ceramic Pistol and the Navy Revolver, and new guns such as a compact EMP launcher, the Battle Rifle and the Tactical SMG kept arriving as late as 2021 and 2023.²⁰ By the later years of GTA Online, community databases such as GTABase were tracking dozens of weapon entries across melee, handguns, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, sniper rifles and heavy weapons, almost all of it added after launch rather than shipped on day one.²¹

That growth pattern is part of why Insider Gaming speculated GTA 6 could end up with more guns than any previous entry in the series once its own post-launch support plays out, a comparison the outlet is explicit is speculation rather than anything Rockstar has stated.¹¹

What is still unknown

• No damage, range, fire rate or magazine figures have been published for any GTA 6 weapon.⁸⁹
• No Ammu-Nation prices and no stock list.⁸
• The weapon wheel layout, category count and carry limit have not been detailed by Rockstar.¹³
• Most guns have no confirmed in-game name; community databases fill the gaps with class names carried over from GTA 5.¹⁵
• Which everyday objects work as melee weapons, and how deep attachment customisation goes, are both unconfirmed.⁸⁹