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<function name="SelectWeapon" parent="Player" type="classfunc">⤶ <description>⤶ Sets the active weapon of the player by its class name.⤶ ⤶ <warning>This will switch the weapon out of prediction, causing delay on the client and <page>WEAPON:Deploy</page> to be called out of prediction. Try using <page>CUserCmd:SelectWeapon</page> or <page>input.SelectWeapon</page>, instead.</warning>⤶ ⤶ <note>This will trigger the weapon switch event and associated animations. To switch weapons silently, use <page>Player:SetActiveWeapon</page>.</note>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Server</realm>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="className" type="string">The class name of the weapon to switch to.&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;If the player doesn&#x27;t have the specified weapon, nothing will happen. You can use &lt;page&gt;Player:Give&lt;/page&gt; to give the weapon first.</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Force the player to switch to toolgun</description>⤶ <code>Entity(1):SelectWeapon("gmod_tool")</code>⤶ ⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Selects a random weapon from the player's inventory and switches to it.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local weapons = Entity( 1 ):GetWeapons()⤶ local weapon = weapons[ math.random( #weapons ) ]⤶ ⤶ Entity( 1 ):SelectWeapon( weapon:GetClass() )⤶ </code>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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