Overview
The Heavy Shotgun is the high-impact shotgun GTA V added under the Shrewsbury brand — a magazine-fed, semi-automatic design built around the Russian Saiga-12, not a pump gun. Where the standard pump shotgun rewards patience, the Heavy Shotgun trades reload speed for a faster string of heavy hits, and it is one of the few shotguns in the series powerful enough to drop an armoured target in a single close-range shot.
Honest note: every GTA 6 performance figure below is unconfirmed — Rockstar has published none.
Character & Behaviour
In GTA V the Heavy Shotgun fires faster than the pump shotguns thanks to its semi-automatic action, and it hits hard enough to be a genuine threat to armour at short range — the cost is a slow drum reload and the usual shotgun fall-off the moment a fight stretches past a room or two. None of that carries a guaranteed value into GTA 6: its spread, pellet count, capacity and damage there are unknown.
What We Know for GTA 6
Rockstar has not shown this shotgun in GTA 6 media; its inclusion is a franchise expectation.
How to Obtain
Unconfirmed for GTA 6. In GTA V the Heavy Shotgun was an Ammu-Nation purchase (and a free inventory add for owners of the DLC that introduced it), but no GTA 6 price, store, spawn point or unlock has been announced, so this page lists none.
History in the GTA Series
The Heavy Shotgun is a relatively late GTA V addition: it arrived with the Last Team Standing Update for GTA V and GTA Online rather than shipping with the base game, and was sold through Ammu-Nation under the in-game Shrewsbury brand. It sits apart from GTA V's separate Bullpup Shotgun — a different weapon, modelled on the Kel-Tec KSG — which the two are easy to confuse. The Heavy Shotgun's draw has always been raw stopping power at close range, enough to make it a staple pick for players who wanted a shotgun that could answer body armour.
Real-World History
The Heavy Shotgun is modelled on the Saiga-12, a Russian semi-automatic shotgun built on the Kalashnikov action — essentially an AK reworked to feed and fire 12-gauge shells from a box or drum magazine. The in-game look most closely matches the Saiga-12K, the shortened, folding-stock carbine variant. Because it inherits the AK's gas-operated, rotating-bolt design, the Saiga is known for shrugging off dirt and cheap ammunition, which is part of why magazine-fed Kalashnikov shotguns became a recognisable action-movie and video-game shorthand for "overkill" firepower.
That lineage is why the game class is called a heavy shotgun rather than a tactical one: unlike the traditional tube-fed pump guns most shotguns are based on, a Saiga swaps shells through detachable magazines, trading the pump's simplicity for a faster, semi-automatic rate of fire. The real Saiga line has been built by the Izhmash (now Kalashnikov Concern) plant in Izhevsk since the 1990s, and surged in U.S. popularity as an imported sporting and competition shotgun before import restrictions in the 2010s made the originals scarce.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Heavy Shotgun confirmed for GTA 6?
No. Rockstar has not shown it in any trailer, screenshot or leak. Its inclusion is an expectation based on GTA history, not a confirmed fact.
What are the Heavy Shotgun's stats in GTA 6?
Unknown. Rockstar has not published damage, fire rate, capacity, range or any other numbers for GTA 6 weapons. Any site quoting exact figures is guessing.
What is the Heavy Shotgun based on?
It is modelled on the Russian Saiga-12 (the short Saiga-12K variant), a magazine-fed, semi-automatic Kalashnikov-action shotgun — not the Kel-Tec KSG, which is GTA V's separate Bullpup Shotgun. That real-world basis is the reliable part; the in-game performance is not yet known.
How much does the Heavy Shotgun cost or how do you get it?
Not confirmed. No GTA 6 price, shop, spawn point or unlock has been announced, so this page does not list one.
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Last updated May 31, 2026. For the full database, visit our Weapons Wiki Database.