🔫 MUSKET

Overview

The Musket is a single-shot firearm that has only ever appeared in GTA as a one-off or seasonal novelty. In the real world it is modelled on flintlock muskets, and that basis — together with its track record across past GTA games — is the dependable part of this page.

Where GTA 6 specifics are unknown, this page says so rather than inventing a number.

In Combat

A single-shot musket trades rate of fire for one heavy hit and a long reload — novelty kit, not mainline. GTA 6 has shown nothing of its handling, so any damage or reload figure is guesswork.

What We Know for GTA 6

Rockstar has not shown a musket in GTA 6 media; any inclusion would follow the franchise's pattern of novelty weapons, not a confirmation.

How to Obtain

No GTA 6 method is confirmed. In GTA V and Online the musket was a limited-time Independence Day item, sold at Ammu-Nation only during the holiday window each year — a deliberately rare, collector's-novelty distribution rather than a standard buy. Whether GTA 6 would repeat that seasonal approach is unknown.

History in the GTA Series

The musket is the franchise's resident novelty antique. It arrived with The Independence Day Special update for GTA V and GTA Online in July 2014, modelled on a 19th-century flintlock — closely resembling the British Brown Bess of Revolutionary-War vintage, with the word “Edinburgh” engraved on the barrel. The game classes it as a shotgun, but it behaves like a single-shot rifle: one heavy hit, then a long reload. Rockstar leaned into the joke with a store description about the gun “that built an Empire,” and it returns each year around the Fourth of July rather than living in the permanent arsenal — likely the oldest-era firearm in the entire series.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated May 30, 2026.