John Wick's guns are mostly production models with a gunsmith's work on top, so "what gun does John Wick use" usually has an answer you can look up by model number. From the second film on, the gunsmith is Taran Butler's Taran Tactical Innovations (TTI) in California, where Keanu Reeves trained in competition 3-gun shooting for the roles. That is why so many of the films' guns are competition guns.
This is the list, film by film, of what Wick himself carries or picks up and fires, drawn from the Internet Movie Firearms Database's frame-by-frame identification. The John Wick guns tag holds the production versions.
The first film: a P30L and a Glock 26
Gun
How he uses it
Heckler & Koch P30L, with compensator
Primary sidearm throughout
Glock 26
Backup, used in the Red Circle nightclub fight
Coharie Arms CA-415
Short-barrelled carbine for the church and the parking lot
Kel-Tec KSG
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Taken from one of Viggo's men
The P30L is the long-slide version of Heckler & Koch's P30, a 9mm with a 4.45in barrel, and the first film fits it with a compensator. The box Wick digs up from under his basement floor holds two P30Ls and two Glock 26s. The CA-415 is an American-made copy of the HK416 and is not in this catalog.
Chapter 2: the Sommelier's list
In Rome, Wick buys his kit from the Sommelier, and every long gun and both pistols in that scene are TTI builds.
Gun
How he uses it
Glock 34, TTI Combat Master package
Main sidearm in Rome and the catacombs
Glock 26, TTI Combat Carry package
Backup, used in the first fight with Cassian
TTI TR-1 Ultralight
AR-15 with a 14.5in barrel, thrown away in the catacombs
Benelli M4, TTI upgrade package
Shotgun with a fixed stock and an enlarged loading port
Kimber Warrior
The .45 the Bowery King gives him with one magazine of seven rounds
The Sommelier's line about the TR-1 calls it an 11.5in barrel; the rifle on screen has a 14.5in one. In the catacombs Wick fires the Benelli eleven times before reloading, which the standard magazine tube cannot do; it needs an extended tube and one extra shell loaded the competition way.
The Glock 34 is the one he keeps coming back to in the later films. It is a long-slide competition Glock with a 5.31in barrel, and TTI's Combat Master package, as the company sells it, adds a competition trigger, fibre-optic sights, a flared magazine well, grip stippling and cuts in the slide.
Chapter 3: the 2011, the MPX and the M2
Gun
How he uses it
TTI STI 2011 Combat Master
Charon's recommendation, "in combination with the nine millimeter Major"
TTI SIG Sauer MPX carbine
His long gun in the Continental siege
Benelli M2, TTI Ultimate 3-Gun package
Shotgun for the siege, reloaded two and four shells at a time
Glock 34 with FDE frame
Picked up from a guard in Casablanca
Bond Arms Texas Defender
The 9mm derringer the Doctor gives him to fake an attack
Loading two or four shotgun shells in one movement is a 3-gun competition technique, and so is the thumbs-forward two-handed grip he uses throughout. The Elder's men in the desert carry CZ Scorpion Evo 3 S1s, which is how that carbine reached the tag.
Chapter 4: the Pit Viper
Gun
How he uses it
Glock 34 Gen 5 MOS, TTI Combat Master package
Sidearm in Morocco and at the Osaka Continental
TTI Pit Viper
The Bowery King's gift in Paris, his main gun from there on
TTI Dracarys Gen-12
The dragon's breath shotgun in the overhead apartment shot
Thompson/Center Encore pistols
The duelling pistols at Sacré-Cœur, in .44 Magnum
The Bowery King describes the Pit Viper himself: a nine-millimetre with a 21-round magazine, a built-in compensator, fibre-optic front sight, ambidextrous safeties, a flared magwell and a two-pound trigger. It is a 2011, the double-stack descendant of the 1911, and it is the one gun on the list that TTI sells as a finished pistol under the film's name. The catalog carries it as the Taran Tactical JW4 2011 Pit Viper.
The Gen-12 and the Encore duelling pistols are not in the catalog. The other characters' guns in the fourth film, Caine's SIG P365 SAS and Mr. Nobody's modified takedown Marlin 1894, are not on the tag, which sticks to Wick's own guns plus a few models from the films' crowd scenes.
What the tag holds
Model
Listings
Glock 26
92
Glock 34
47
SIG Sauer MPX (carbines, pistols, Copperhead)
36
Heckler & Koch P30L and P30LS
36
Benelli M4
29
Kel-Tec KSG (12 gauge, .410 and KSG-25)
27
CZ Scorpion Evo 3 S1
23
M4A1-pattern rifles
11
Benelli M2 Tactical and 3-Gun
10
Kimber Warrior
6
Bond Arms Texas Defender, 9mm
2
TTI Pit Viper
1
Other
2
The backup gun from the first film is the biggest entry by a wide margin: the Glock 26 accounts for 92 of the tag's 322 listings, because it is one of the most common carry pistols on sale and every distributor colour gets its own listing. The Glock 34 is second, and 22 of its 47 listings are the MOS optics-ready version the fourth film uses.
The screen gun and the catalog gun
A TTI package is work done to a factory gun, so what the tag sells is the host. A Glock 34 Gen 5 MOS listing is the pistol Wick carries in the fourth film before TTI fitted its trigger, sights and slide cuts; a Benelli M2 Tactical is the shotgun before the 3-Gun package extended its tube. The P30L, the KSG, the Kimber Warrior and the Texas Defender were used much as they leave the factory. The Pit Viper is the exception, sold complete.
Some of the guns people ask about are not in the catalog at all: the CA-415 came from a small maker, and the TR-1 was a TTI build. Others that nobody asks about are on the tag because Wick picks them up for a scene.
The audit for this article rebuilt the tag. It had 118 listings and now has 322: the Glock 34, the Benelli M2, the P30L, the MPX and the Pit Viper were all missing or incomplete, and 208 listings were attached. The four that came out were three Canik TTI Combat pistols, which carry Taran Tactical's name but never appear in a film, and a .22 LR rifle version of the Scorpion. Titles on 71 listings carried invented descriptors ("Silver Elite", "Tan Beast", "Gen Perfect", "Threaded Excellence", a "Competition Master" that read like TTI's Combat Master, and a Glock 34 "Gen 1", a generation that model never had), and 79 action fields were filled or corrected.
Nick Sawinyh - Nick Sawinyh is a father, husband, hobby farmer, and gun enthusiast from Kentucky. He founded GunsNation and writes most of what appears on this blog.
