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The Assault Shotgun is based on the Cobray Street Sweeper. When it is being reloaded, Johnny or the multiplayer character will be seen removing the magazine. In reality, the Cobray Street Sweeper's magazine is fixed to the gun and each shell must be loaded individually into it.
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Despite the fact that the player gets a Combat Shotgun upon entrance in an LCPD or NOOSE vehicle, the LCPD and NOOSE officers use Pump Shotguns, with the exception of the mission The Snow Storm.
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In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the ejection port on the Automatic Shotgun is on the wrong side in the HUD icon.
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There were plans to include a Silenced 9mm Pistol in the game, but it was cut from the final build.
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In the DLC, The Ballad of Gay Tony, Yusuf claims that the Gold SMG is solid gold, but this would make the gun very heavy, and gold would be too soft for the internal workings of the gun.
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In the mission "Three Leaf Clover", it is possible to kill Luis before escaping the bank, which would logically make the events in The Ballad of Gay Tony impossible, as in the mission "Not So Fast", Luis ambushes the diamond exchange. Moreover, the player receives no penalty for killing Luis, unlike most other missions where it is possible to kill other playable characters.
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The "Pager" ringtone on Niko's cell phone is the pager sound from Grand Theft Auto III.
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Niko is referenced in an episode of the TV series "Criminal Minds". In the episode, a criminal states that his name is "Niko Bellic" in his personal information. An agent catches on, and tells his superiors: "Niko Bellic is the name of the main character of Grand Theft Auto IV."
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Triads can be heard to say "My cousin owns a casino in Las Venturas; maybe we should go sometime", which is likely a reference to Wu Zi Mu and his casino in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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The mission "Weekend at Florian's" is a reference to the comedy movie "Weekend at Bernie's". Not only is the name similar, but during the mission, Florian insists that he has changed his name to Bernie.
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In The Lost and Damned, when calling Jim for an Automatic 9mm, Johnny will call it a 'semi-automatic 9mm' instead.
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In The Lost and Damned, in the mission "Heavy Toll", Johnny refers to the Assault Shotgun as "an American firearm". He is only partially correct, because the Street Sweeper is a copy of the South African Armsel Striker, produced under license in America by the Cobray Company.
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On the in-game website Yourmexicandoctor.com, two fictional drugs named Hingmyralgan and H4PP1 are listed. These drugs were first found in Manhunt 2, also by Rockstar Games.
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If a pirated copy of the game is recognized, the in-game camera will swing wildly around during play.
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An entry for a flamethrower exists in the game's WeaponInfo.xml file, but only the title "FTHROWER" remains, with no extra data to make it playable.
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It was originally intended for the game to include flyable planes and jets, however according to a Q&A session by Rockstar Games, they were cut because the map was too small.
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