🔫 ASSAULT RIFLE

Overview

The Assault Rifle is GTA's AK: the rugged, no-frills automatic rifle that has been the series' mid-tier combat workhorse since the earliest 3D games. It is the gun that signals a fight has graduated from pistols and SMGs to something serious — high damage, controllable full-auto fire, and a profile lifted straight from the most recognisable rifle on Earth. A weapon of this type was visible in the unofficial September 2022 GTA 6 leak.

Honest note: a leak is not a confirmation, and Rockstar has published no GTA 6 stats — everything specific below is franchise history or flagged expectation.

Character & Behaviour

In the GTA games the Assault Rifle has always been the AK archetype: heavy-hitting and dependable, leaning on punch and reliability rather than the pin-point accuracy of the carbine-class rifles that sit alongside it. It is the default "real firefight" weapon — effective across short and medium range, forgiving to use, and a staple of both story shootouts and online combat. Its GTA 6 damage, range, fire rate and attachments are all unknown; Rockstar has shown none of those numbers.

What We Know for GTA 6

A weapon of this type appears in the September 2022 leak footage, so it is widely expected — but a leak is not a guarantee. Beta content has been cut before (GTA: Vice City never shipped its leaked AK-47).

How to Obtain

Unconfirmed for GTA 6. Across the series the AK-pattern rifle has been a mid-game purchase or a common pickup from heavier enemies — an Ammu-Nation staple in GTA V — but no GTA 6 price, store, spawn point or unlock has been announced, so this page lists none.

History in the GTA Series

An AK-pattern rifle has been a fixture of essentially every modern GTA, usually labelled the AK-47 in the older games and the Assault Rifle in the HD era. It has consistently filled the same slot — the mid-tier automatic a player graduates to once pistols and SMGs are no longer enough, sitting below the more precise Carbine Rifle but valued for raw stopping power. Notably, GTA: Vice City had a leaked AK that never shipped in the final game, a useful reminder that even strongly-expected weapons are not guaranteed until release.

Real-World History

The Assault Rifle's template, the AK-47, is the most-produced firearm in history — an estimated 100 million-plus across all variants. It was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Soviet tank mechanic wounded during the 1941 German invasion who, recovering in hospital, resolved to give Soviet troops an automatic weapon to match German firepower. "AK-47" stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova and the year 1947, when his design — influenced by the German StG 44 assault-rifle concept — was finalised for trials; the Soviet Army formally adopted it in 1949.

Its enduring fame rests on simplicity: a gas-operated, long-stroke piston action with loose tolerances that keeps firing when caked in dirt, sand or mud, chambered in the intermediate 7.62×39mm round and cheap enough to mass-produce by the million. That ruggedness made it the standard rifle of the Warsaw Pact and, through licensed and unlicensed copies, the weapon of choice in conflicts across the globe — to the point that its silhouette appears on flags and coats of arms. For a crime game, that instantly-readable outline is the whole appeal: it simply says "assault rifle" at a glance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated May 31, 2026. For the full database, visit our Weapons Wiki Database.