Player or weapon

Hello everybody, i have a little doubt, the thing is that i'm making a tank game i already have the model of the tank with the animations of rotation in x and in y, but what i don't know is if i can copy the properties of a weapon to a player, because i dont know how to make my tank shoot because that's a property of a weapon not of a player, so if everyone can help i will really apreciate it.

Thanks