Best Handguns in GTA 5
Every handgun in GTA 5 and GTA Online, ranked by damage with fire rate as the tie-break. The heavy revolvers sit at the top; the everyday pistols are further down but fire far faster.
The bars are Ammu-Nation's own figures out of 100. A handgun is a backup weapon for most of the game, so fire rate and clip size matter more here than the raw damage number suggests.
#1The Marksman Pistol is a single-shot handgun added to Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online with the Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 Update. It is a break-action pistol with the proportions of a small rifle, an ergonomic grip and a very short barrel. Although it is about the size of the Sawn-off Shotgun, it is held one-handed by the grip outside First-Person View.
#2The Perico Pistol is a single-shot handgun in Grand Theft Auto Online, added with The Cayo Perico Heist update. It is El Rubio's prized sidearm, an antique pistol with a rounded ivory grip bearing a shield on a gold circle. Its barrel and loading mechanism are gold, and the barrel carries the German inscription "MIT OFFENEN ARMEN". Its form draws on a German pistol grip, with details styled after a James Bond film adaptation.
#3The Up-n-Atomizer, also called the Raygun, is a single-shot handgun in Grand Theft Auto Online. It is a compact futuristic blaster with a blue body and a yellow coil in place of a conventional barrel. Each shot sends out a glowing yellow coil that ends in a small blue explosion. Its tint alters the colour of that coil beam. Rather than using ordinary ammunition, the weapon restores its next shot after a short recharge.
#4The Hawk & Little Heavy Revolver Mk II is a Custom Revolver in the Handguns class, added to Grand Theft Auto Online with The Doomsday Heist update. It is the Mark II conversion of the Heavy Revolver and uses double-action fire. Its frame retains the base weapon's general layout, but adopts a cleaner, more modern form, with a bulkier squared forend, a square trigger guard, altered vents and grip pattern, and a hexagonal cylinder.
#5The Double-Action Revolver is a double-action handgun revolver in Grand Theft Auto Online, introduced with The Doomsday Heist. It is a gold-plated weapon with light floral engraving and pearl grips. The upper part of its white grip panels bears the markings "D.D.P" and "Repeating Arms Co.", the latter being an arms manufacturer name from Red Dead Redemption II. Its firing sound is shared with the revolver used in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II.
#6The Navy Revolver is a hidden single-action handgun in Grand Theft Auto Online, added with The Diamond Casino Heist update. Its appearance combines the Colt 1851 Navy's general form with the nine-inch barrel and power associated with the Colt Walker. The silver revolver bears blood stains, the inscription "YOU'RE NEXT" along its upper side, markings near the barrel, and a grip marked with 68 confirmed kills.
#7The Heavy Revolver is a Hawk & Little handgun in Grand Theft Auto Online, added with the Executives and Other Criminals update. It is a single-action revolver with a six-round cylinder, modelled on CO2-powered .177 pellet and airsoft revolver replicas, with elements of its barrel drawn from another revolver design. Its role recalls the Python from an earlier Grand Theft Auto game.
#8The Heavy Pistol is a semi-automatic handgun added to Grand Theft Auto V with The Business Update. It has the form of a modern tactical pistol, with a grip safety, a rear control on its right side and a full-length rail beneath the barrel. A red dot sight sits on top. It is cosmetic in the original version, while in first-person view on enhanced versions it acts as the aiming sight.
#9The Hawk & Little Pistol Mk II is a 9mm, semi-automatic Custom Pistol in the Handguns class, available in Grand Theft Auto Online through the Gunrunning update. It is the Mark II conversion of the standard Pistol. The revised model keeps much of that weapon's design heritage while using a different slide, an extended dust cover and a squared muzzle. Its frame is polymer, with textured finger moulding and a reshaped trigger guard.
#10The WM 29 Pistol is a semi-automatic 9mm handgun added with Los Santos Drug Wars. It carries 12 rounds and has damage rated at 36, with a fire rate of 40, accuracy of 50 and range of 35. Its frame largely reuses the Ceramic Pistol's design, though its trigger guard is rounded, while details including the striker backplate draw on Glock pistols.
#11The Vintage Pistol is a semi-automatic 9mm ACB handgun introduced with The "I'm Not a Hipster" Update for Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. It is an engraved, grey and silver custom pistol based on the FN Browning 1922, the same firearm seen in L.A. Noire. Its old-fashioned construction has no Picatinny rail, setting it apart from handguns built for modern attachments.
#12The Ceramic Pistol is a semi-automatic 9mm handgun made by Vom Feuer in Grand Theft Auto Online, added with The Diamond Casino Heist update. Ceramic parts are meant to keep it out of sight of X-rays and metal detectors, which suits its discreet use. The weapon bears the markings "9MMx6" and "MADE IN LC". Its listed statistics are 32 damage, 44 fire rate, 36 accuracy and 20 range, with a six-round clip.
#13The SNS Pistol is a Shrewsbury compact pistol in the Handguns class, added to Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online with the Beach Bum Update. Its name abbreviates "Saturday Night Special", a term for a small, inexpensive firearm. The model is chambered for .45 ACB and fires semi-automatically. It is among the smallest guns in the series, with a barrel about as long as its grip and trigger guard, and wooden detailing on the grip.
#14The Shrewsbury SNS Pistol Mk II is a small, semi-automatic .45 ACB handgun in Grand Theft Auto Online, introduced with The Doomsday Heist update. It is the upgraded Mk II form of the SNS Pistol and is classified as a Custom Compact Pistol. Its body has a straighter trigger guard than the earlier weapon, with what appears to be a pocket clip on its left side.
#15The Vom Feuer AP Pistol is a fully automatic machine pistol in the Handguns class, chambered for 9×18 ammunition. Its name identifies it as an armor-piercing pistol. The weapon combines a traditional slide with a striker-fired action, while its trigger and grips follow the form of modern pistols. It costs $1,000 and holds 20 rounds per clip.
#16The Pistol is a Hawk & Little semi-automatic handgun, also called the Handgun or 9mm. It uses 9mm and .45 ammunition and has a stated capacity of 17 rounds. In Grand Theft Auto V, its design closely follows the Taurus PT92, while its slide has features resembling a Colt M1911. The enhanced version changes its grip from black to brown.
#17The Flare Gun is a single-shot handgun added to Grand Theft Auto Online with the Heists update. It costs $3,750 and has a red body, firing red flares by default. Its design draws on the Orion Brand Flare Gun, with elements of the World War I British Very Pistol. Weapon tints alter the colour of the flare and its smoke capsule.
#18The Stun Gun, also called the Teaser, is a Coil handgun built to incapacitate targets with an electric shock. Its black and yellow body is based on the TASER 7, with features taken from the M26 TASER. The weapon has two probe ports, sights and, in the enhanced version, a Coil mark on its grip and an electronic charge gauge beneath the sights.
#19The Digiscanner is a Handguns-class detector rather than a conventional firearm. It is a small, modern-looking device with a T-shaped aerial, two moving sensor wings, a readout, controls and side dials. Its design resembles the ghost-detecting equipment seen in The Real Ghostbusters, though its body is more streamlined.
#20The Metal Detector is a hand-held device in Grand Theft Auto Online, listed in the Handguns class. It is modelled closely on the Digiscanner from the GTA V Epsilon Program mission "Chasing the Truth", although this version lacks its antenna and uses different buttons. Its control panel has yellow directional controls and red and blue lights, while its screen shows ten blue distance bars and fourteen yellow LEDs.
#21The Hacking Device appears in Grand Theft Auto Online as equipment added with the continuation of The Chop Shop update. It is a compact handheld unit modelled closely on the Metal Detector from The Cayo Perico Heist. Its version has an antenna, while the detector's controls are replaced with different buttons.
