What This Article Actually Is
Before anything else, here is the honest picture. Rockstar has not released an official weapons list for GTA 6. What you see below comes from three places: the two official trailers, the official screenshots Rockstar has put out including the Ultimate Edition art, and the leaked development footage from September 2022. Anything from the leak should be treated as likely but not confirmed, since Rockstar never acknowledged that footage. Anything from the two official trailers and official screenshots is much more solid, since that is footage Rockstar chose to release.
Most of the weapon names floating around online, things like the Klose K17 or the Girardi ES9, come from fan analysis matching in game logos and gun shapes to real world firearms, not from an official Rockstar press release. I am telling you this upfront because a lot of sites present guesswork as fact, and I would rather you know exactly what you are reading.
Pistols Spotted So Far
Handguns show up more than any other weapon type across the trailers, which makes sense since both Jason and Lucia are shown using pistols constantly during robbery scenes.
The most talked about pistol so far is nicknamed the Capo. It appears at the end of the liquor store robbery in the first trailer, in Jason’s hand, and Raul Bautista is shown holding one too in a later screenshot. The shape and slide design point toward a Colt M1911, a gun that has shown up in almost every GTA game since the series went 3D.
Lucia’s personal sidearm looks to be a Glock 17 style pistol, generally referred to online as the Klose K17. What makes this one worth watching is a detail people picked up on in the Ultimate Edition art, a switch style modification that would let it fire fully automatic, similar to the real world Glock switch that has become a talking point in actual firearm circles over the last few years. If Rockstar puts that in the game, it would be one of the more grounded, currently relevant details the series has added in a while.
Jason’s own preferred handgun looks like a Beretta 92FS, referred to by fans as the Girardi ES9. He is shown carrying it across multiple trailers and screenshots, more than any other weapon he holds.
There is also a smaller, gold plated pistol sitting on a desk in one screenshot, which looks like a compact concealed carry style handgun, the kind an NPC or side character would carry rather than a story weapon.
Rifles and Carbines
Two variations of an M4 style carbine show up across the trailers, most likely the same base weapon shown with different attachments. Look closely and you can spot a Duke Arms Company logo on it. If that name sounds familiar, it is because Duke Arms already exists in Red Dead Redemption as a fictional gun manufacturer, so Rockstar appears to be carrying that brand identity across game universes rather than starting from scratch.
An AK pattern rifle also shows up in trailer footage, along with what looks like an M16 family style rifle. Neither has a confirmed in universe name yet.
Submachine Guns
Both Jason and Lucia are shown using an MP5 style SMG during the bank robbery sequence in the second trailer. Jason’s version has a red dot sight attached, which is likely one of the attachment options the game will let you swap in and out rather than a fixed part of the gun.
Beyond the MP5 style weapon, footage analysis has also pointed to a compact machine pistol resembling a Mini Uzi, and a smaller SMG that looks close to a Skorpion vz. 61 in size and shape.
Shotguns
Two shotguns have shown up so far, and they serve very different purposes. A pump action shotgun, styled after a Mossberg 590, appears during robbery scenes in the trailers and looks like it will support an extended tube, a flashlight, and stock swaps based on the attachment points visible on it.
Separately, there is a double barrel shotgun shown being used for alligator hunting out in what looks like a swampy area of the map, likely the Grass River region. Long barrel double barrel shotguns are rare in this series. Chinatown Wars had a sawn off version, but a full length one is new territory for GTA.
Revolvers
A pair of matching revolvers, referred to as the Morgan and styled with Vice City themed engravings, are part of the Ultimate Edition bundle. They are based on the Smith & Wesson 629, and the serial numbers engraved on the Ultimate Edition versions reportedly reference the release dates of the original Vice City and Vice City Stories, a small touch aimed straight at longtime fans of the series.
Sniper Rifles and Hunting Guns
Screenshots showing hunters out in the rural parts of the map have confirmed a bolt action rifle that looks like a Remington 700, along with a semi automatic rifle resembling the Springfield M1A. Taken together with the shotgun used on the alligator, this points toward Rockstar giving the rural side of the map, and the characters who live there, their own distinct weapon culture separate from the city based cast.
Heavy Weapons and Explosives
A grenade launcher appears in the second trailer, used to blow up a police vehicle during a mission, with an armored truck visible in the same shot. It is a returning weapon from GTA 5 rather than a brand new addition. A light machine gun also shows up in a gun store advertisement featured within the second trailer, closely resembling the Combat MG from GTA 5.
Melee Weapons
Melee items are trickier to confirm as actual combat weapons rather than scene props. A screenshot shows Cal Hampton and Jason playing pool together, and while a pool cue is visible, it is not confirmed whether you can actually use it to hit someone or if it only exists for that cutscene. The same goes for a switchblade knife shown near the Ultimate Edition revolver artwork, which may belong to Lucia but has not been confirmed as a usable weapon yet.
The Weapon Wheel Is Getting Rebuilt
One of the more interesting changes has nothing to do with any single gun. Rockstar appears to be splitting the classic weapon wheel into separate categories for weapons, equipment, and gear, based on what has been shown in trailer footage so far. That is a notable shift from GTA 5, where you scroll through one long wheel with everything mixed together.
This lines up with talk of a more limited, satchel style inventory system, closer to how Red Dead Redemption 2 handled carrying gear, rather than the old GTA approach of stuffing a rocket launcher, a golf club, and six pistols into your pockets at once with no real limit. If that holds up at launch, gunfights and general carrying capacity in GTA 6 could feel noticeably more grounded than anything the series has done before.
Why the Named, Branded Guns Matter
In GTA 5, most weapons were named after their class. Pistol. Heavy Pistol. Carbine Rifle. Functional, but forgettable. GTA 6 looks to be moving toward named, branded firearms with their own in universe manufacturers, Duke Arms being the clearest example so far. That is a meaningful shift, because branded weapons usually come with more customization depth attached to them individually, rather than one shared upgrade tree for an entire weapon class.
From my own time watching every trailer frame by frame the way a lot of the community has been doing since the September 2022 leak, this is the detail that stands out most. It is a small thing on the surface, a name plate here, a manufacturer logo there, but it usually signals a bigger systemic change underneath.
What Is Still Unconfirmed
A lot of the specific weapon names circulating on fan sites, including the ones used in this article, are educated matches based on gun shape, not something Rockstar has stated outright. Full stat breakdowns, complete weapon counts, and exact upgrade trees are also not public yet. Treat any site claiming an exact total weapon count as an estimate, not a fact, until Rockstar publishes something official or the game actually launches.
Sources
This roundup pulls from trailer analysis and screenshot breakdowns published by the following outlets, linked at the specific claim above where relevant:
- PC Gamer, GTA 6 weapons list, all guns confirmed so far
- TheGamer, Grand Theft Auto 6 confirmed weapon list
- Games.gg, GTA 6 guns spotted in trailers and screenshots
- Games.gg, GTA 6 weapons list, all confirmed guns and gear
- ScreenRant, all GTA 6 weapons confirmed so far
- GTABase, GTA 6 weapons list
GTA 6 is set to release November 19, 2026. This article will need updating once Rockstar releases more footage or the full game, so treat everything above as the current state of public knowledge, not a final list.