9mm pistol
The 9mm pistol is Joel's first gun in The Last of Us Part I, picked up from his and Tess's hideout in The Quarantine Zone before they go after Robert. It fires fast, has the most ammo around and stays useful all game as a cheap backup to your heavier guns.
- Category
- Handgun
- How to get it
- Pick up
Unlocked by
Found in
Good to know
- Holds 6 rounds and 20 in reserve at first; fully upgraded, 14 in the magazine and 28 carried.
- Ellie also uses one in Left Behind.
- Almost every human faction carries it: FEDRA, Robert's smugglers, hunters, bandits, David's men and Fireflies.
- Three shots break armor or finish a downed enemy.
- Fully upgrading it costs 250 parts.
Workbench upgrades
Reload speed: 15 parts, then 20 parts with tool level 1, then 25 parts with tool level 2. Capacity, +2 rounds per level: 15, 20 (tools 1), 25 (tools 2) and 40 parts (tools 3). Fire rate: 20, then 30 (tools 1), then 40 parts (tools 3).
When to use it
Pistol-armed enemies are less dangerous than those with rifles or shotguns but more dangerous than melee ones. Use the 9mm to finish staggered humans, then close in with a melee weapon, and keep your revolver and long guns for armored targets.
Spoiler: who else carries oneSpoilerShow
Henry owns a 9mm, and after Sam turns he uses it on his brother and then himself. Marlene draws hers on Joel in the hospital garage, and he kills her.
Related weapons
- Thrown
Brick
Bricks are throwables you pick up from the ground to distract or stun enemies. Throw one to the side to pull a patrol away, or straight at someone to stagger them for a follow-up hit.
- Melee
Shiv
The shiv is a crafted blade made from one binding and one blade. It is your silent kill for clickers, the only way to open shiv doors, and with Shiv Master your escape when a clicker grabs you.
- Melee
2x4
The 2x4 is a plank of lumber and the most common melee weapon in the game, especially in Boston and Pittsburgh. It reaches farther than your fists, stuns a human with one hit and lasts four swings before it breaks.
- Melee
Lead pipe
The lead pipe is the toughest breakable melee weapon in the game, lasting nine hits. Joel can first pick one up in The Outskirts while clearing infected on his own, and another lies where Ellie drops it after hitting Bill in Lincoln.