Animating my weapon

You can rig things in UE, but then it needs to be a skeletal mesh of course. I think things are most easily animated in an external tool like Maya or Blender.

Or, you could just cut that process right out and get a whole load of weapons and animations for like 5 bucks:

EDIT: Whoops, not sure if anims are included there.

Yes, couple it with:

EDIT2; Or just get the whole caboodle with:

Seems very popular. It really depends what your priorities are. You can have all that for 20 buck, or spend 6 weeks trying to make a decent single weapon animation.

LAST EDIT: Apparently this is stuff in engine now for making animations:

I can’t really say much about how easy to use it is…