GTA 6 Handguns: What Is Confirmed About the Sidearm Class

GTA 6 Handguns

Two pistol slots, one named revolver pair, and a class that matters more than it used to because you can no longer carry everything.

Confirmed by Rockstar By GTA6.free Systems Desk · Published September 2, 2026 · Reviewed September 2, 2026 · 3 min read

The short version

You can carry two pistols on your person; the rest goes in a vehicle.
The Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers are the only named sidearm.
Handguns are confirmed as a weapon category by Rockstar.
No individual handgun statistics have been published.

Handguns are the class the new inventory rules change most. In GTA V a pistol was what you held while walking to a better gun. In GTA VI it occupies one of two permanent slots on your body.

That is a promotion, and it is the most useful thing that can honestly be said about the class right now.

Confirmed about the handgun class

Category exists: Yes, handguns are a confirmed weapon category
Carry limit: Two pistols on the person
Named handguns: Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers (Ultimate Edition)
Where the rest lives: Your vehicle
Individual statistics: None published

Why two slots changes the calculation

With a hard limit of two rifles and two pistols, a sidearm stops being a fallback you happen to have.

It is half your permanent loadout

You chose it, and it stays with you for the whole mission.

That is a promotion from what a pistol was in GTA V.

Which changes the question you ask

Not which handgun does the most damage.

Which one covers what your long guns cannot, and which one is worth a slot for an entire job.

What we can say about the class, and what we cannot

The published facts are short enough to list in full.

Handguns: confirmed against unconfirmed

Three things are known. Five are not.

Question	Status
Does the category exist?	Confirmed
How many can you carry?	Two
Has any been named?	One pair, photographed
How many handguns exist?	Unknown
What are they?	Unknown
How do they perform?	Unknown
Can they be customised?	Unknown
Is ammunition shared across the class?	Unknown

Where the lists come from

Anyone showing you a full handgun roster is working from leaked data.

We would rather publish the eight rows above than fill them in from a build nobody has seen since 2022.

What the series precedent suggests

Across previous Grand Theft Auto games the handgun class has typically run from a starter pistol through a heavy semi-automatic to at least one revolver, with a suppressed option somewhere in the middle. Hawk & Little has supplied a good deal of it.

This is franchise precedent, not a GTA VI claim, and it is the reason a revolver being the named Ultimate Edition sidearm is unsurprising rather than revealing.

Frequently asked questions

How many handguns can you carry in GTA 6?

Two on your person. Anything beyond that is stored in your vehicle.

What handguns are in GTA 6?

Only the Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers have been named. Rockstar has not published a handgun list.

GTA 6 Handguns

The short version