The Guns of Ballerina (2025): Every Weapon Identified

Last updated August 2026 · By Nick Hall, firearms-in-film writer who has tracked the Taran Tactical builds across the John Wick franchise since 2014

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Quick take: Ballerina is the first film in the John Wick world where one shop built almost the entire armory. Taran Tactical Innovations supplied Eve’s Glock, her backup, Wick’s pistol, Pine’s shotgun and the sniper rifle. And the bronze Glock she carries was a prototype during filming that you can now buy off the shelf for about $5,000.

The Full TTI Takeover

If John Wick (2014) was the franchise running on Heckler & Koch and a Coharie clone, Ballerina is the opposite pole. This is the film where Taran Tactical stopped acting like an outside collaborator and started supplying the whole rack.

That matters more than a credit line. In most action films the hero gun is a one-off built for the camera and it stays that way. Here the flow ran the other direction: the pistol Ana de Armas carries was a prototype of a package TTI was still developing, and by the time the film reached audiences the finished version was a catalog item with a price on it.

So this piece does two jobs. It identifies every weapon in the film, cross-checked against the Internet Movie Firearms Database entry, and it tells you which of them you can actually put in a safe.

TTI "Ballerina" Glock 17: Eve’s Hero Gun

Eve Macarro’s primary sidearm through the whole film is a Glock 17 wearing a prototype of what Taran Tactical calls the Ballerina Combat Master package. The tell is the finish. Bronze compensator, bronze slide, bronze magwell, against an otherwise black gun.

It is not a repaint of the Combat Master that John Wick carries. The Ballerina build is its own configuration, and the production version TTI ships now runs a 4.49-inch compensated barrel, a Trijicon SRO, a competition trigger and extended basepads. The compensator system is the interesting engineering: the barrel and comp come out of the slide as one assembly rather than needing to be separated.

The catch is the number. TTI lists the finished Ballerina Glock 17 Gen 5 package at around $5,000, and retailers who stock it sit in the same territory. That’s a race-gun price for a race gun, and it buys you the exact configuration on screen rather than something close to it.

If you want the platform without the five-figure conversation, a standard Glock 17 is the honest starting point, and the current gun is the Gen 6.

The Plain Glock 17: The Most Common Gun in the Film

Strip away the bronze and the ordinary Glock 17 is everywhere in Ballerina, and it’s the gun the film uses to mark time.

In the opening raid the Chancellor’s assassins carry them with weaponlights and compact cans. Young Eve and her father Javier both fire pistols they pick up off the floor. Years later the same model is the training gun at the Ruska Roma, running live ammunition and simunitions depending on the drill, and Petra assembles one during Eve’s final test. There’s even one rigged to a door in Daniel Pine’s hotel room with a bayonet fixed underneath it.

That’s deliberate. The Glock 17 is the house gun of this world, so the bronze one reads as a graduation rather than a costume.

3D-Printed Glock 43X: The First-Assignment Pistol

For Eve’s first job, Nogi hands her a 3D-printed Glock 43X wearing the Taran Tactical Combat Carry package and loaded with rubber bullets. She uses it in the nightclub protecting a target from Il Seong’s men.

The rubber-bullet detail is the point of the scene, not the printing. This is a test, and the gun is deliberately less than lethal.

CZ P-07: The Hallstatt Battlefield Pickup

Eve takes a CZ P-07 off a dead henchman in Hallstatt and runs it through the final shootout. No modifications, no ceremony, just the gun that was closest.

It’s a sane choice for a prop department and a sane choice for a buyer. The P-07 is a hammer-fired polymer CZ with a decocker, and it undercuts most of the striker-fired competition on price.

SIG P229R and the Taped Knife, and the Gun That Changes in the Credits

The Scarred Eye Assassin, played by Daniel Bernhardt, who also played Kirill in the first John Wick, draws a SIG Sauer P229R in the Hallstatt cafe. Eve takes it off him. Then she does the thing everybody remembers: she tapes a kitchen knife to the grip and runs the pistol and the blade as one weapon.

Here is the detail almost nobody writes up. The gun changes model in the end credits. The taped-knife pistol shown during the credit sequence is not the P229R at all, it’s a SIG Sauer P226 MK25. Same tape, same knife, different gun. The P226 is the longer, full-size pistol with the rail and the anchor markings, and once you know to look the swap is obvious.

It’s a continuity error rather than a plot point, and it’s the kind of thing that happens when a hero prop gets rebuilt for a pickup shoot months after principal photography. Worth knowing if you were planning to copy the setup, because you would be copying two different guns.

Walther PPQ: Frank’s Gun

When the Chancellor’s men come through the door of the gun store, Frank reaches for what appears to be a Walther PPQ. He’s the armorer of this world and he defends himself with a plain, excellent striker-fired pistol rather than anything from his own wall, which is a nice piece of characterisation nobody comments on.

Dan Wesson Model 14: The Cold Open

The film’s ugliest scene runs on a revolver. One of the Chancellor’s operatives hands a Dan Wesson Model 14 snub to the Chancellor, played by Gabriel Byrne, who passes it to Javier Macarro with a choice attached: use it on yourself, or we take your daughter.

The Model 14 is a period-correct choice for a man who has had it a long time, and it’s long out of production. Dan Wesson still builds revolvers, so the 715 is the modern equivalent rather than a match.

TTI Viper: Wick’s Cameo Pistol

John Wick turns up in Hallstatt with a Taran Tactical Viper and duels Eve with it, then lets her walk. It’s a short appearance and a deliberate one: he doesn’t get the Combat Master here, he gets the newer TTI build, and the fight ends without a winner.

TTI V Seven Harbinger: The Overwatch Rifle

The TTI V Seven Harbinger is the rifle Frank presents in the gun store, and it’s the closest the film comes to a product demonstration. It’s a lightweight AR-pattern build, and the scene is staged so you get a long clean look at it.

TTI Benelli M2 Tactical: Pine’s Shotgun

Daniel Pine, played by Norman Reedus, runs a Benelli M2 Tactical customized by Taran Tactical in the Prague Continental, until the cult enforcer Dex takes it off him mid-fight.

The same shotgun turns up again in the gun store, and Frank’s sales pitch is quotable: a "TTI custom Benelli M2 21-inch fin grip" with an "oversized charging handle" and "oversized bolt release". One problem. The gun on screen does not have a featureless fin grip, so the description doesn’t match the prop. Eve never gets to load it either. The Chancellor’s men hit the store first, so she clubs a cultist with it and then wedges it through a door as a deadbolt.

This is one of the rare cases where the exact screen configuration is buyable, because TTI sells the Benelli M2 build directly.

The Cult’s Long Guns

The Chancellor’s people do not carry one standard rifle, and that’s worth stating plainly because a lot of write-ups pick one and call it their issue weapon. They carry whatever the scene needs.

The CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 is the mass-goon submachine gun. Bounty hunters at the Continental run Angstadt Arms UDP-9 carbines with reflex sights and vertical grips, alongside SIG MPX subguns, and Eve grabs a UDP-9 off one of them during the gun-store fight. The Taran Tactical TR-9 covers the rest of the 9mm carbine work.

Move up in calibre and it gets more varied. The Scarred Eye Assassin tracks Pine through the Prague Continental with a LaRue Tactical PredatOBR in 7.62, and Frank handles the same rifle in his shop, calling it a personal favorite. CZ 805 BREN A1 rifles are the Continental guard weapon and turn up again in Hallstatt. Beyond those there’s a Knight’s Armament SR-16 CQB Mod 2.1, an IWI Galil ACE, a Rifle Dynamics Quickhatch, a modified WBP Jack in 7.62, and more AK variants than the film bothers to distinguish.

One nice touch: Eve finds a rack of M4A1 carbines in Frank’s storage and puts them straight back down, because there’s no ammunition for them.

Frank’s Gun Shop: The Densest Wall in the Franchise

Before Hallstatt, Eve visits an underground gun store run by Frank, and the set dressing in that room is the reason this film is worth freeze-framing.

This is where the SCAR-Ls and the Remington 870s actually are. Both get listed as cult weapons in a lot of coverage and neither is. Two FN SCAR-L rifles hang on the left wall, one fitted with an FN 40GL launcher, and two short-barreled Remington 870s, one with Magpul furniture, sit behind Frank. They are wall guns. Nobody fires them.

What else is on that wall, in roughly the order the camera finds it: flintlock pistols and crossbows behind Frank, including what looks like an Andracor Kentucky replica. Double-barreled shotguns on the right-hand rack. An SKS with an ATI Fiberforce stock, a Beretta PX4, a CZ P-07, a suppressed H&K USP and a Ruger Mk II. A suppressed B&T MP9, an HK416 with an ACOG, a KRISS Vector, an M14 and an M14 EBR, a Glock 19X, a Glock 26, an STI Perfect 10, a Steyr AUG A1, a KAC PDW. Two Benelli M3 Super 90s. An Accuracy International Arctic Warfare and some Micro Uzis. An SVD, a Desert Tech SRS, a Barrett M99, MP5 variants including an MP5SD and an MP5K, an AS Val, an AK-74M, an AMD-65, an AKMSU, and a pair of Sa vz. 58s in a crate.

The Ruska Roma armory gets a smaller version of the same treatment: a row of Glock 17s on the wall, a Barrett M107 beside them, a few AKs and a suppressed B&T APC9 K Pro.

The Flamethrower Duel Was Mostly Real Fire

Both Eve and Dex pull custom flamethrowers out of the Hallstatt armory and fight with them, and it’s the sequence the film gets remembered for. It’s also the one piece of hardware in Ballerina that was not faked in post.

The fire is practical, including the stunt performers who get set alight. Stunt coordinator Stephen Dunlevy, an 87North veteran who performed on John Wick 2 and 3 and co-coordinated the fourth film, ran the sequence with Jayson Dumenigo of Action Factory, who holds an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for the fire gel that makes this kind of work survivable.

"We like to do as much as practically possible and then come up with innovative ways to make it as safe as possible and as practical as possible," Dunlevy told the Motion Picture Association. The cost of that approach shows up in an odd place: the first time Ana de Armas set a stunt performer on fire in rehearsal, she broke down in tears.

No, you can’t buy one. Flamethrowers are not NFA items and are unregulated federally, which surprises people, but nobody’s selling a TTI-branded version of the movie prop.

The Things That Are Not Guns

Ana de Armas has said the film gave her more than twenty-five weapons to work with, and most of them don’t take a magazine. Over the runtime Eve uses a frozen pipe, an ice pick, rebar, hammers, forks, knives, a lantern, a plate, a meat tenderizer, a meat cleaver, a screwdriver, an axe, a sword and a pair of ice skates.

The set pieces that do involve hardware are worth listing properly. The Chancellor’s operatives open the movie by shooting crossbows at the guards on the Macarro house. There are M18 smoke grenades, MK3A2 offensive grenades and a crate of unidentified grenades that Eve throws down a staircase. An M18A1 Claymore appears. And in the fixed-position category there’s a Goryunov SG-43 and a KPVT heavy machine gun.

Every Weapon in Ballerina

Weapon	Who has it	Where
Glock 17, TTI "Ballerina" Combat Master package	Eve Macarro	Throughout
Glock 17 (standard, some suppressed)	Chancellor’s assassins, Ruska Roma students, Lena, Petra, Javier	Opening raid, training, Continental, Hallstatt
Glock 43X, TTI Combat Carry, 3D-printed	Eve, issued by Nogi	Nightclub, first assignment
TTI Viper	John Wick	Hallstatt duel
CZ P-07	Eve, taken from a henchman	Hallstatt final shootout
SIG Sauer P229R	Scarred Eye Assassin, then Eve	Hallstatt cafe, knife taped to grip
SIG Sauer P226 MK25	Shown with the taped knife	Closing credits, continuity swap
Walther PPQ	Frank	Gun store attack
Dan Wesson Model 14 snub	The Chancellor, handed to Javier	Cold open
Angstadt Arms UDP-9	Continental bounty hunters, Eve briefly	Prague, gun store, Hallstatt
CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1	Cult enforcers	Throughout
SIG Sauer MPX	Bounty hunters	Prague Continental
Taran Tactical TR-9	Cult gunmen	Hallstatt
TTI V Seven Harbinger	Presented by Frank	Gun store
TTI Benelli M2 Tactical	Daniel Pine, then Dex; offered to Eve	Continental, gun store, Hallstatt
LaRue Tactical PredatOBR 7.62	Scarred Eye Assassin, Frank, a Hallstatt gunman	Prague, gun store
CZ 805 BREN A1	Continental guards, Hallstatt gunmen	Prague, Hallstatt
M4A1	Found by Eve, discarded, no ammunition	Frank’s storage
Knight’s Armament SR-16 CQB Mod 2.1	Set dressing, on a table	Frank’s gun shop
IWI Galil ACE GAP556	Cult gunmen	Hallstatt
Rifle Dynamics Quickhatch	Cult gunmen	Hallstatt
Modified WBP Jack 7.62	Cult gunmen	Hallstatt
FN SCAR-L (one with FN 40GL)	Wall guns, not fired	Frank’s gun shop
Remington 870, short-barreled, x2	Wall guns, not fired	Frank’s gun shop
Goryunov SG-43	Emplaced	Hallstatt
KPVT heavy machine gun	Emplaced	Hallstatt
Custom flamethrowers	Eve and Dex	Hallstatt armory duel
Crossbows	Chancellor’s operatives	Opening attack on the Macarro house
M18 smoke grenade, MK3A2 grenade, unidentified grenades	Various	Throughout
M18A1 Claymore	Emplaced	Hallstatt

What You Can Actually Buy

Most film-gun articles end here with a shrug, because the hero gun was a one-off. Ballerina is the exception, and it’s the reason this film is worth a buyer’s attention rather than just a spotter’s.

Three of the screen guns exist as the exact configuration: the TTI Ballerina Glock 17 package, the TTI Benelli M2, and the LaRue PredatOBR. Several more are standard production guns you can buy tomorrow, including the CZ P-07, the Glock 43X, the SIG P226 MK25, the Walther PPQ, the Angstadt UDP-9 and the Scorpion EVO 3.

A handful aren’t happening. The Dan Wesson Model 14 has been out of production for decades, the 805 BREN A1 gave way to the Bren 2, the SG-43 and the KPVT are not civilian propositions in any meaningful sense, and nobody is selling you a flamethrower with a TTI logo on it.

The bronze Glock started as a prototype for a film and ended up on a shelf with a price tag. That’s a first for this franchise, and it won’t be the last.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What gun does Ana de Armas use in Ballerina?

Eve Macarro's main pistol is a Glock 17 fitted with a prototype of the Taran Tactical Innovations "Ballerina" Combat Master package, identifiable by its bronze compensator, bronze slide and bronze magwell.

Can you buy the TTI Ballerina Glock 17?

Yes. What was a prototype during filming is now a production package from Taran Tactical, built on a Glock 17 Gen 5 with a 4.49-inch compensated barrel and a Trijicon SRO. Expect to pay around $5,000.

Is the Ballerina Glock the same as John Wick's Combat Master?

No. They are both Taran Tactical Combat Master builds, but the Ballerina is its own configuration with the bronze furniture. Wick carries a TTI Viper in his Ballerina cameo.

What pistol does Eve tape a knife to?

A SIG Sauer P229R she takes from the Scarred Eye Assassin at the Hallstatt cafe. In the closing credits the same taped-knife pistol is shown as a SIG Sauer P226 MK25 instead, which is a continuity error.

What shotgun is in Ballerina?

A Benelli M2 Tactical customized by Taran Tactical. Daniel Pine uses it in the Prague Continental, and Frank offers Eve the same gun in his shop, though the on-screen prop does not have the fin grip he describes.

Are the SCAR-L and Remington 870 used by the cult?

No. Both are set dressing on the walls of Frank's underground gun store. Two SCAR-Ls hang on the left wall, one with an FN 40GL, and two short-barreled Remington 870s sit behind Frank. Neither is fired.

What rifle does the Scarred Eye Assassin use?

A LaRue Tactical PredatOBR in 7.62 NATO, used to track Daniel Pine through the Prague Continental. Frank handles the same rifle in his shop and calls it a personal favorite.

How many weapons are in Ballerina?

IMFDB catalogs around thirty distinct firearms plus grenades, crossbows, a Claymore and the custom flamethrowers. Ana de Armas has said she handled more than twenty-five weapons, most of which are improvised rather than guns.

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