The guns Rockstar has shown in GTA 6, and what each one says about the person holding it

Fair warning: I am not a gun person. Rolo does the hardware on this site, and I asked him first. He said guns are hardware, and I said Rockstar's guns are costume, and we agreed I could have this one as long as I labelled everything. So: where Rockstar has named or shown a weapon, I say so and I say where. Where a fan list or a preview reported it, I say that. Where I am reading something into a picture, it is mine.

Ruby reads clothes as information. I read the guns the same way, because Rockstar chose every one of them for a screenshot it knew millions of people would study. Nobody at Rockstar North puts a rifle in Jason's hands by accident.

The four guns Rockstar named

What Rockstar says. Rockstar's own editions page names four weapons, all of them in the Ultimate Edition:

• Hawk & Little Morgan revolvers, one for Jason and one for Lucia. The official image shows a long-barrelled chrome revolver with a scope on top, held out at arm's length.
• An engraved Girardi ES9, a full-size black pistol with decorated grips.
• An engraved Klose K17, a compact pistol in deep red with a pink rose on the frame and, in script, the word "Lucia".

Rockstar files the two pistols under personalised variants. Every pre-order also gets a palm-tree weapon finish through the Vintage Vice City Pack. That is the complete list of weapons Rockstar has put a name to.

My read. I have looked at that image a lot. Two guns on the edge of a pool, a money clip, a candle, and one of them has her name on it. In a series where the guns have always been interchangeable tools you buy at Ammu-Nation, Rockstar has made the female lead's sidearm a personal object, the way you would engrave a watch or a lighter. It is the first time a GTA has made a weapon say something about who owns it, and Rockstar chose to do it for Lucia.

The revolvers are the other half of the joke. One model, two copies, his and hers. It is the most couple-ish thing in the whole edition, and it is a pair of guns.

What the screenshots show

What Rockstar shows. Official screenshots and trailers, which I have been through one by one on our screenshots page:

• Jason with an AR-style rifle, carry handle and all, aiming off a Vice City rooftop at night.
• Jason, hooded, holding a rifle upright in a dark industrial space.
• The jewellery store. Jason with a rifle in the foreground, glass exploding around him; Lucia behind him, arms straight, pistol on the clerk.
• The vault. Both of them in black tactical vests holding carbines, Jason in a skull face mask, cash in the air.
• The getaway. Lucia on the back of a dirt bike, one arm round Jason, the other firing a pistol back at a police car.
• Grassrivers. A bearded man in a cap with a lever-action long gun over his shoulder, an alligator hanging behind him.

One that appears on fan lists and that I am not counting: Cal Hampton's pool cue. It is in his hand in a bar, at a pool table. That is a game of pool.

My read. Look at who holds what. Jason gets the long guns, nearly every time: rooftop, hood, jewellery store, vault. Lucia gets the pistol, and she is the one shown actually firing it, on a moving bike, at the police. Jason is posed with his weapons. Lucia is caught using hers. That fits everything Rockstar has written about her: her father taught her to fight as soon as she could walk, and the Extended Look has her putting a stiletto heel to work before she ever touches a gun. Jason is the ex-soldier with the equipment. Lucia is the fighter.

What is only reported

Reported, not named by Rockstar. Fan sites that go frame by frame have put names to more guns. GTA Intel's list, last updated September 23, counts these from official footage:

• A Moreland 850 shotgun, its name shown on a pickup prompt in the Extended Look.
• A Mustang .357 revolver, the name roll-marked on the barrel in an Ambrosia screenshot. I could not make out the marking on the copies we host, so it stays reported.
• An SMG and a grenade launcher in Trailer 2.
• A hammer in Trailer 1 and a baseball bat in a Port Gellhorn shot.

Those are real frames from Rockstar's own material, but the names and the identifications are fans', so they stay labelled. Plenty of other names are circulating from the 2022 leak. We do not repeat them, and neither should you until Rockstar does.

How guns work, so far

Confirmed, from the Extended Look: third-person free aim from cover, a weapon wheel, a slow-motion kill cam that highlights weak points, a timed gun range, and shop owners who shoot back.

Reported, from Bloomberg and Edge: Rockstar spent a long time trying to drop the wheel for a Red Dead-style limited loadout before giving up; Six covered that in does GTA 6 have a weapon wheel. The idea survived in another form: Edge reports your full arsenal lives in the boot of your car, so on foot you carry what you chose. And Edge reports a weapon is one of the things the police use to recognise you, alongside clothes and your car. Drop the gun and you are harder to describe.

Not shown: ammunition counts, attachments, gun shops, prices.

My read. Put those last two together. A game about two people who want out of the life, where the guns live in the car and holding one makes you easier to identify. Every time you pick a weapon up in Leonida you are choosing to be recognisable. I do not think that is a coincidence either. It is the Criminal Profile idea again: how you do a job matters as much as whether you do it.

Where this goes after November 19

On launch day our weapons database starts filling from the game itself: every gun, its class, where you get it. Until then, this is the honest list. Four names from Rockstar, a dozen weapons in official pictures, a handful of reported names, and one red pistol with a rose on it that tells you more about Lucia Caminos than any of the rifles tell you about Jason.

Weapons on the GTA 6 wiki