Nova | Smart Gun (Factory New)

The Nova | Smart Gun (Factory New, FN) is a Restricted shotgun finish that trades the usual military look for a metallic silver, sci-fi treatment with a brain sculpted near the rear sight. Factory New is the top grade, showing that silver surface at its most reflective and the embedded-brain detail at full legibility.

Design

Smart Gun leans hard into an experimental, high-tech vibe: the body is coated in metallic silver paint, and a brain sits near the rear sight, painted to look embedded in the weapon itself. It's a community design by the artist SerQ, and the tagline "The marriage of tech and organics" sums up the whole concept.

Nova | Smart Gun (Factory New) Float and Wear

Float on this finish runs the full 0.00–1.00 range, and Factory New sits at the very bottom of it. Here the silver coat reads bright and even, with no scuffing to dull the reflective surface, and the organic brain sculpt stays sharp against the metal. If you want the sci-fi concept looking exactly as intended, this is the grade to grab.

Nova | Smart Gun Rarity

This finish carries the Restricted rarity — the fourth rung on the standard weapon ladder, marked by its pink-purple tag. It's an uncommon grade to land, a clear step above the Mil-Spec and Industrial finishes below it.

Nova | Smart Gun Case and Collection

Smart Gun belongs to The Spy Tech Collection, introduced with the Armory / Season 5 update in July 2026. The collection has no associated weapon case, so copies enter circulation through collection drops and trade-ups rather than unboxing — that keeps the supply route different from the case-fed finishes most players are used to.

Nova | Smart Gun Patterns

There's no random pattern roll on this one. The silver coat and the embedded brain land in the same spot on every copy, so no paint seed or "blue gem" variant exists to chase. Only float and wear tell one Smart Gun apart from the next.

StatTrak & Souvenir

No StatTrak version exists — StatTrak copies are minted inside weapon cases, and this finish comes from a case-less collection, so a kill counter was never produced for it. There's no Souvenir edition either; Souvenir weapons drop only from Major-tournament packages, and The Spy Tech Collection has never been part of a Major.

Nova | Smart Gun Price

As one of the newest Nova finishes, this skin has barely settled onto the market, so listings are still thin and pricing is best checked live rather than pinned to a fixed tier. Factory New sits at the top of the wear ladder as the cleanest grade, and it typically commands the range's high end. Check current availability on Skin.Land for the latest listings.

FAQ

Is Factory New worth the extra over Minimal Wear (MW)?

If the reflective silver surface is the draw, yes — Factory New keeps the metal free of scuffing and shows the brain sculpt at its clearest. That said, Minimal Wear looks nearly identical to most eyes for less, so the premium mainly matters to collectors chasing the lowest float on the shelf.

Which gloves suit the Smart Gun?

Its silver, chrome-leaning palette plays best with cool-toned gloves — gray, white, or gunmetal wraps echo the metallic body without fighting it, and a subtle blue-gray pair leans into the sci-fi feel. Steer clear of warm browns and reds, which clash with the cold silver finish.

Does Smart Gun have a best pattern to hunt?

No. The design is fixed, meaning the artwork sits identically on every copy regardless of paint seed, so there's no rare pattern or blue-gem version to search for. When comparing two copies, the only real variables are the wear grade and the exact float value.