Confirmed · Launch trailer
Close-up of a clenched fist wearing knuckle dusters in red neon light in GTA 6

Case File · Melee Weapons

Knuckle Dusters

Knuckle Dusters are confirmed for GTA 6 by the launch trailer, bringing a brass-knuckles staple back to the city where the series first handed them out.

Class Melee WeaponsBased on Brass knucklesSource Launch trailer (October 2026)
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Class
Melee Weapons
Based on
Brass knuckles
Source
Launch trailer (October 2026)
Series history
Vice City, San Andreas, GTA 5

Back where they started

The October 2026 launch trailer put Knuckle Dusters on screen, making this one of the few melee weapons with a fully official confirmation rather than a leak citation. There is a neat circle in it: brass knuckles entered the series in the original Vice City, tucked behind a building in the game’s opening minutes, and they return in the city that introduced them after stops in San Andreas and GTA 5.

Real-world basis
Brass knuckles
Classic four-finger brass knuckles, unchanged in a century and needing no explanation.

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