Firearms (or guns) are tactical devices used to propel a projectile through the guns trigger. Hunters are commonly armed with a wide variety of firearms or guns. Dean Winchester for example carries a Colt M1911A1.
While guns are generally ineffective against monsters, demons, and ghosts, they can be loaded with specially modified rounds to harm, repel, or even kill supernatural entities. For example, pistols or rifles loaded with silver bullets are used to kill werewolves, skinwalkers and shapeshifters. Iron bullets are needed to kill a shtrigas and harm fairies. Shotgun shells packed with rock salt can repel ghosts, demons, and hellhounds. A bullet with a devil's trap engraved into it can be used to trap a demon in its host.
Conventional ammunition can kill (some types of) zombies, the Amazons, and (obviously) normal humans. A very special gun, The Colt, can kill almost anything in existence.
While the Winchester brothers commonly use shotguns, pistols and rifles, some hunters use tactical weapons such as assault rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles among more military grade weaponry.
Demons and Leviathans have also been known to use guns on occasion - sometimes just for amusement. Angels will rarely use firearms unless they are completely powerless. The deity Beau tried to kill Sam with a pistol.
In The Great Escapist, Crowley invents a special anti-angel pistol by melting down Angel Blades and crafting them into bullets.
In All Along the Watchtower, an alternate version of Bobby shoots a Tempter Demon with his gun that utilizes the same Angel-killing bullets that Crowley's Angel-Killing Gun has.
Notable Firearms[]
- The Colt
- Angel-Killing Gun
- Armament's shotgun
- The Equalizer
- Colt M1911A1
- Taurus Model 99
- Soulless Sam's gun
- Sam's Revolver
- Rufus (gun)
Bullets[]
- Colt bullets
- Angel-killing bullets
- Devil's trap bullets
- Witch-Killing Bullets
- Dead man's blood bullets
- Holy Oil Bullets (Unseen, abilities unknown)
Trivia[]
- The online flash game Supernatural: Devil's Gate consists completely of shooting on the most devil's traps symbols on the screen in the shortest amount of time possible.
- Dean's homemade rifle was a rifle he made on his own in sixth grade and it appeared in Something Wicked, Bad Day at Black Rock and was mentioned in Exile on Main Street.
