The SPAS, the Jackhammer, the Street Sweeper and now the USAS-12 - I think you pretty much have the most visible video game examples of combat shotguns covered now.
Hah, but that's a simple double barrel shotgun, though maybe there is a twin barrel 2 caliber shotgun here. I bet the recoil is insane but you get the super shotgun covered with that one :D
Very cool, I always thought that this just flopped and was forgotten, I didn't know they made so many. Makes sense why those laws kinda crushed US sales
I saw this shotgun used in the movie "Alien Nation". Wanted to get one, but they immediately slapped a class 3 destructive device label on it, making it illegal here in the US.
You know what amuses me about this gun? The full-auto version simply needed a Title 2 License, while the semi-auto version needed a Destructive Device permit.
Thanks for the vid Ian. I got to handle one of these back in the early 90's. I knew Daewoo made military equipment as well as cars, but I had no idea they were the people who built the USAS-12! Before the Howard gun laws in Australia you could buy a semi-automatic version here. The one I got to play with had the 20 round drum. I liked that it had sling swivels, you'd need them if you were going to go bush with it. It was a lot heavier than my SPAS-12.
Ummmm, ahhhhh.... I don't know how to break this to you but I wasn't being serious. I wrote that in jest. Not sure how anyone could take that as being serious.
Zombies Do exist...ask Winchester...they make Zombie Specific shells for shotguns. It must be a conspiracy indeed. like here's the shotgun machine gun...they make Zombie specific rounds....yep sided with the Zombies for sure we've been sold out
Chekki all good. TYou need to work with 20yr olds you can yell them stuff like that make them believe it ( not hard to do) then mock their gullibility lol
I've always wanted one of these since it was my favorite weapon in Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix for the PC. An absolutely powerful and brutal weapon.
Daewoo make a LOT of stuff. Small arms, vehicles large and small, fighter jets and other aircraft, heavy construction equipment, fire control systems(land, sea and air)refrigeration I think too and they're into ship building as well.
The interesting part of this firearm is that the barrel is the registered part, not the receiver like other firearms. A buddy of mine who is a class 7 mfg SOT built a 'new' firearm from a USAS12 parts kit and made a new registered barrel. So he was able to scrub all the markings off the receiver and put his own markings in place.
... there really isn't reason at all you can own a SAGA-12 and not a semi-auto converted USAS-12. What the hell is the treasury department smoking. It still uses legal and widely utilized ammunition and is of right length barrel length, does the bore size really make that much of a destructive difference if you're shooting the same exact ammunition as almost every other shotgun in the US? I mean, the bore is a little bigger than average but its not exactly a blunderbuss or a punt gun we're talking about here.
There were semi auto variants in the early 90s and due to the bore being over .50 caliber was deemed "not suitable for sporting activities" and labeled as a destructive device and placed on nfa
Comrade Stalin The National Firearms Act of 1934 is part of the Internal Revenue Code, since it's nominally a tax law. But Treasury no longer has a say in the matter, because in 2002 the ATF was transferred into the Department of Justice.
Wish he was able to do a video on the aa-12 it’s such a cool weapon with a very effective design. I love the low recoil of the aa-12 and how destructive it can be.
My introduction to this weapon wasn't video games, but watching the Stargate series. One of them is in the pilot episode and along with the SPAS-12, features prominently in many of the episodes with the milky-way galaxy Replicators.
I got to fire one of those on full auto when I was in Special Forces and they were evaluating them. I wasn’t part of the evaluation team, just lucky enough to be at the right place and the right time. I’m short, 5’4”, and it looks like it would be really awkward, but it wasn’t, it was quite comfortable to hold and actually controllable on full auto.
I, myself, tend to run one of these or something equivalent- when I need to clear a whole house. And hopefully take out some tangos along the way. Seriously, though, these types of weapons are really impressive to behold, albeit very, very serious; like watching a beautiful but entirely deadly wild animal. I’d never want to be down range of something like this.
I knew daewoo as an outside foreign car manufacturer that was sold in the early 2000s but nobody really bought them a whole lot. I was very surprised to hear that name on a shotgun
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this. Syphon Filter 2 was the best. The UAS-12 was one of the best weapons in the game, too bad it was so hard to find and only had 12 shots.
+The crazy Weaponcrafter Saab makes a ton of stuff: Fighters, missiles, UAVs, radars, etc. One thing they don't make is cars though, they sold the car manufacturing division to GM in 2000, and it's been resold a few times since then.
+Alcatraz252 Daewoo makes (or used to make) almost anything you can imagine. Cars, heavy machinery, guns, ships (including massive container ships), washing machines/fridges/microwaves and other household items, computer monitors, telecommunication devices, textile, infrastructure (buildings, roads, dams) and probably thousands of other things I don't know of. It's insane, really.
+Alcatraz252 It's one of those companies that have divisions that make pretty much everything. Cars, guns, ships, electronics, you name it. I used to work for a PC manufacturer that was a subsidiary of their telecom division.
+Simon Doge AA-12 (Originally known as the Attachison Assault, but now known as the Auto-Assault 12) Is an automatic shotgun like the USAS-12 here. The AA-12 is pretty easy to find as it has a very simple and matte look to it usually and has a rather large hand guard between the handle and magazine
I used a Saiga (12ga AK), pretty nice, huge recoil though, and mine never had auto. I think full auto shotguns are a great idea. Sad that those grand beasts sometimes die because of paper pushers :( the insides of the USAS-12 look facinating. Thanks for the vid!
In BF4, they have this and it’s sooooo fun to get kills when guys are hiding in cover just from the Splash damage. Also, if you like the USAS in Battlefield, you should try the DAO-12 with frag rounds.
eeeeewwwwww. DAO-12 users with frag rounds- thats the BF players equiv of being a nonce in prison, lowest of the low... (comedy - and easy way to combat the auto-shottie n00bs was sks with flash suppressor and ironsights- 7.62 to the face at close range is one shot kill, the DAO with frags was mostly a 2 shot killer that worked by suppressing targets vsion on first shot for easy coup de grace (sic) second shot- you just had to be really tight on how worked your corners and with precise angle off elevation with the sks as you did it.)
The ATF was so wrong to classify this as a Destructive Device when in semi-automatic they are no different than any other semi-automatic shotgun. This is really no different than the Origin-12, Saiga-12, VEPR-12,etc. I have always wanted one of these. I have fired a semi-auto and full auto version at a MG shoot.I lusted after this gun after reading an article in the 1980s. I love exotic shotguns. I have the SPAS12, SPAS15,LAW12,DP12,KSG,KSG25 and Saiga-12 and Saiga-20 along with my Origin-12 that I bought because I will never be able to own a USAS-12 or AA12 and it reminds me of those guns.I Love Military/Para-military style firearms especially from the 1980s.
Thanks for another great video Ian. Youre the best at explaining firearms IMO, Ive learned a lot from you. Pretty simple design and ahead of its time too. Seems like there was a lot of stuff from this era that was ahead of its time or designers still took risks, idk. It would fit right in today with the popularity of that AK shotgun and other shotguns of the type. Ive always thought the idea of automatic shotguns was silly. Make it semi-auto and youre set. Why didnt they establish a branch in the US like other companies have done to get around import bans? Oh ya, and it still surprises me to this day how relatively low pressure shotgun shells are. I dont think most people realize this. Probably the reason why a slam-fire shotgun can work safely?...
+bradley mullins They don't wanna make the russophiles clutching their M91/30s sad. Last thing we need is a bunch of neckbeards toting Russian surplus belting hymns about Lenin and Communism marching on the White House smelling like turnips and cheap potato water.
Autistic Fingoloid bradley mullins maybe there were different people in charge at the ATF when the Saiga 12s came to the US than when the Strikers were turned away? I might look that up actually.
Used to see these a lot in the Philippines, mostly used by bank armored van security guards. Each armored van team would consist of 3-4 guards. The driver had a handgun, usually a revolver or a Armscor 1911 9mm, the others had pump shotguns, and one would always have either a norinco type 56 or one of these.
Oh my god I remember seeing these used by the cop's in Michael Mann's made for tv movie: - LA Takedown, I remember thinking these were the coolest guns I had ever seen (I was only a teenager). As far as I know that's the only film they were used in, it's a shame he didn't use them when he remade the film as Heat, now if the team of robbers were all armed with these that would have been a hell of a shootout
Ah good ole USAS, if you watch Stargate SG1 they were used often in the show by the heroes and background soldiers and on full auto rock n roll as well :D
RustiSwordz An invasion of Replicators, there's a situation where a full-auto shotgun is actually needed. Otherwise full-auto is just a fun switch rather than practical.
+Forgotten Weapons so if i remove the dust covers and don't put them back, all i have to do is swap the positions of charging handle and ejector? briliant. and the gun itself is so simple.
@@VisayasMindanaoLuzon one advantage is the automatic fire capability and also ammo capacity. Most high capacity shotguns have fixed magazines or tubes. This shotgun has a detachable mag so that's a plus as well in the USA the price is much higher than other semi auto shotguns so if you can get it for cheap in your country I would go for it. Hope this helps even tho I'm late.
I used to read a men's action novel series that dated from the mid-80's onward and one of the main characters used a modified version of this gun as his main long gun. Neat to see it in real life!
I always seem to get educational videos teaching things like shapes and colors to small kids as recommendations on your videos... I think RUclips is trying to tell me something. (｡･ω´･｡）
+Ry P Sometimes I'll get other Forgotten weapons videos recommended on the side but most of the time I think I'm getting the same thing you're getting, videos teaching kids the alphabet and colours and stuff.
I Still Remember There Video That They Were Playing in There Booth @ The NRA Convention in Reno Nevada in 1987 ??? The Last Time They Where Anywhere Close to the West Cost. I didn't have a credit card back then So I was Unable to book a Room a Head of Time, got there, All of Reno Was Sold Out, Spent the Night sleeping in My Car , Freezing My " A's" Off, Finally just started driving around, Just to Stay Warm. But it Was Still Worth It ( and Yes I Was Young ).
+Martin Landart I remember in my youth having to build a shed out at the local rifle club in Western Australia and being pre cordless days we had no power to drill holes on the angle iron so the old fella who was the club captain got out his SMLE 303 and made holes just the right size. So construction as well as demolition. LOL
Haphazardization but what if someone actually did, you can do an awful lot of damage in a classroom, office space or a street corner with these kind of weapons. And don't act like that never happens. It happens way to often in the US
Not all were machine guns. Mine is a semi. Bought before the AWB. It was grand-fathered since I already owned it, but I had to register it as a DD. I bought it because I knew the AWB was going to go in effect.
@@seankane8628 ah yes, the Bill of Useful Items. Say, why do the police need it? Aren’t they only going up against American citizens? The same people an American citizen would be up against?
@@juliet4093 Why do authoritarians like you always think that if it can't be justified to you, it should be illegal? Wouldn't it make more sense to say the opposite? Or do you just not realize that in 76 years only two murders have been committed with legally registered NFA weapons, one of which was by a cop?
I remember reading about this back in the 1980's in the old action-adventure novels featuring "Able Team" from the Mack Bolan universe. Carl "Ironman" Lyons used one and I thought, in print, it was the coolest thing ever
bwahaha, it makes me think of a car my mom had way back in the day, a Daewoo Lanos hatchback..honestly one of the smoothest riding shitboxes back in the early 00's
As a Brit, we're more familiar with Daewoo's cars than anything else they did. Many years ago, I wrote a novel (which failed to sell more than half a dozen copies!) and I gave one of the main characters a USAS-12. With the infinite luxury of "creative licence" I had it converted to 10 gauge 3 1/2" magnum.....
I'm fascinated by the Atchisson shotguns and full auto shotguns in general. It's hard to imagine any scenario where a full auto shotgun would be a better choice than a semi auto shotgun. They're undoubtably cool, but they don't really serve any practical purpose. The AA-12 and USAS-12 are examples of what happens when an engineer is allowed to run wild. Ultimately, full auto shotguns are solutions to a problem that doesn't exist, which is never a good thing from a business perspective.
Ohhh, I remember this one from Soldier of Fortune 2. Got surprised while looking at the floor holding one, and emptied a magazine into someone starting at their feet. By the time it ran dry, there were bits of them EVERYWHERE. I remember it took a while to locate everything, then we found a hand and an eyeball halfway down the next corridor.
I remember the first time I saw this in one of my father's firearms magazines in 1989 in a feature of the Shot Show of that year. At the time I remembered thinking it was a lot like the Atchisson Assault 12 my father had told me about but I had never seen. Interesting to find out that this WAS the an offshoot of that gun As an aside now knowing the back story of Maxwell Atchisson selling the drawings and rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber and his company MPS in 1987, and those drawings not being complete to the point that when they constructed the first MPS AA-12 it didn't actually work and Baber had to hire Boje Cornils to basically find a way to make it work. Cornils then spent 18 years figuring out how to make it run correctly......like the U USAS LOL So it took Cornils 18 years to make the firearm in those incomplete drawings into a functioning firearm Meanwhile Atchisson sold those incomplete drawings in 1987 and two years later had a fully functioning USAS-12 to sell 30k units of....... I'm thinking Maxwell Atchisson pulled a fast one on Baber and sold him incomplete and/or early drawings of the AA-12 and kept the complete knowledge he had gained after all his efforts from 1972-1987 developing the AA-12 and used that to make the fully functioning USAS-12 a year later
Does the destructive device classification apply only to semi-auto versions of this gun? Or does it also supersede the machine gun classification on full-auto models?
+Puse And they even have a version that's sold to civilians for hunting. Presumably the TOZ-123 is used for hunting bears, since it would be overkill for anything smaller.
I'm probably incorrect but aren't the Streetsweeper and Stryker (or Striker depending on who you ask) the same weapon just differently named for different markets? I'm thinking of another video from Forgotten Weapons that covered the Streetsweeper/Stryker (Striker) which threw this up.
6:17 when that "roller" is down bolt cant be locked, it ensures that the locking lug will not hit anything on its way into battery. A groove in the receiver keeps the roller down until the bolt is in battery.
Two things to add there was a rare "Pump" forearm that could be added to charge the gun. you would remove the ambi charging handle and forearm and it would replace them I have only see two one on GB and the other at Knob Creek. Also you said that the mags are similar to the Saiga but pre-date them of coarse. It is funny you said that, the MD-20 20 round drum for the Saiga-12 was based off of the USAS-12 drum the proto-type was a USAS drum fitted with the top of a factory 5rd Saiga mag for proof of concept before the molds were then made. There were some other changes made but the USAS drum was the bases for the Saiga drum, compare pics of both and you will see. Plus Mike Davidson of MD Arms talked about it years ago on the Saiga-12 forum.
Seeing this caused instant flashbacks to the Pre-nerf USAS-12/frag round massacres in Battlefield 3.
That was my shit lmao
I have wonderful memories of that!
On Canals, it was a weapon of mass destruction
i miss that game so much. i might reinstall it, i hope people still play
I max leveled recon class in bf3 with the USAS,good times :)
The SPAS, the Jackhammer, the Street Sweeper and now the USAS-12 - I think you pretty much have the most visible video game examples of combat shotguns covered now.
+Vlad Piranha He's missing the Super Shotgun.
Hah, but that's a simple double barrel shotgun, though maybe there is a twin barrel 2 caliber shotgun here.
I bet the recoil is insane but you get the super shotgun covered with that one :D
Not all video game shotgun s we need the short 1978 lever action 12 s from mw2
Christian Nickels He did krushchevs double barrel and a drilling 3 barrel.
Street sweeper =/= Striker 12
I first thought you made a list of shotguns classified as destructive devices
"Fire, Full-Auto, and Semi-Auto." So it's an automatic shotgun AND a flamethrower?!
And if that doesn't work, you can just slap one on the bottom of your M4.
Yes
With incendiary rounds
A flamethrower with incendiary rounds? Brilliant!
12 Gauge frag rounds are a thing
Legends say that this weapon can disable the sun...
Popeyes Biscuits Can also shoot down Jets.
What ever you do don't fire it at the ground!
Popeyes Biscuits don't fucking look at it!
Popeyes Biscuits yep defo with frag rounds
Don't FUCKING LOOK AT IT!
Ah very handy. When not operating, guide rod functions as shower curtain rod.
+Christopher Penta Don't diss the noble shower curtain rod, even Glock made them before making firearms
tehgreatvak not shower curtains. Just ordinary ones.
+Christopher Penta Also usable with the main spring as a shock absorber for certain small Daewoo tractors.
I heard you could use it to pole vault over up 3 meter tall chain link fences!
For hunting modern animals like the Super Sonic Mallard or if a Giganotosaurus breaks into your garden and goes after your chickens.
Very cool, I always thought that this just flopped and was forgotten, I didn't know they made so many. Makes sense why those laws kinda crushed US sales
Now if only Marui would have made one of these Hmm?
Airsofts are for limp-wristed, low-T nu-males.
and you're not special... Grow up dude.
Broooooo its you omg love your channel keeo up the vids
I saw this shotgun used in the movie "Alien Nation". Wanted to get one, but they immediately slapped a class 3 destructive device label on it, making it illegal here in the US.
You know what amuses me about this gun?
The full-auto version simply needed a Title 2 License, while the semi-auto version needed a Destructive Device permit.
Typical ATF: they are much ass hole.
@@henryofskalitz2228 ATF exists only to make life hell for normal Americans.
....well that's stupid.
thank the demorats
I just read a reply Ian made to a comment confirming that the full-auto version is *both* a "machine gun" *and* a "Destructive Device."
Thanks for the vid Ian. I got to handle one of these back in the early 90's. I knew Daewoo made military equipment as well as cars, but I had no idea they were the people who built the USAS-12! Before the Howard gun laws in Australia you could buy a semi-automatic version here. The one I got to play with had the 20 round drum. I liked that it had sling swivels, you'd need them if you were going to go bush with it. It was a lot heavier than my SPAS-12.
Any government that forbids it's citizens from owning these has sided with the zombies.
Eh? Not sure what the point of contention here is.
Ummmm, ahhhhh.... I don't know how to break this to you but I wasn't being serious. I wrote that in jest.
Not sure how anyone could take that as being serious.
Zombies Do exist...ask Winchester...they make Zombie Specific shells for shotguns. It must be a conspiracy indeed. like here's the shotgun machine gun...they make Zombie specific rounds....yep sided with the Zombies for sure we've been sold out
Cheeki...learn to know when someones taking the piss lmao
Chekki all good. TYou need to work with 20yr olds you can yell them stuff like that make them believe it ( not hard to do) then mock their gullibility lol
I've always wanted one of these since it was my favorite weapon in Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix for the PC. An absolutely powerful and brutal weapon.
Love this game & the damage these babies do!!
"Oh no, an enemy!!"
*3x full auto 12gauge rounds later*
"I mean, splatter??"
If you played battlefield 3, you will never forget this weapon.
Yes I don't know why they decided to put a flak cannon into the game.
I got this in soldier of fortune 2 and then many games later on
And Bad Company 2
Rainbow Six 3 master race
Oh, I wasn't aware BF3 came out in nineteen ninety fucking eight.
This weapon can control day and night. Also good for shooting down Su-37s. Destructive device indeed.
Got that reference XD
Dident the sraw do the same thing when Carryed by matimi0?
Baker Tankersley
Nothing, but nothing, is more op than the USAS-12 Frag rounds.
+Baker Tankersley There are no SU-37s in any game where there is a SRAW and thet Matimi0 plays.
Pretty sure he means Su-35
Daewoo make a LOT of stuff. Small arms, vehicles large and small, fighter jets and other aircraft, heavy construction equipment, fire control systems(land, sea and air)refrigeration I think too and they're into ship building as well.
The interesting part of this firearm is that the barrel is the registered part, not the receiver like other firearms. A buddy of mine who is a class 7 mfg SOT built a 'new' firearm from a USAS12 parts kit and made a new registered barrel. So he was able to scrub all the markings off the receiver and put his own markings in place.
i'd love to see a SPAS15
Or the actual AA-12
AAAAHHJ
i don't think the birds consider that weapon very sporting compared to a double barrel
rate of fire on this is slower tho hmm think about it its true lol
Well you can shoot down a jet with that thing...
@Joe ÇI was referencing battlefield friends.
@Joe Ç The USAS used to be a weapon of mass destruction in battlefield.
Something tells me that if you were to actually use this to hunt birds, there wouldn't be anything left to complain.
"Doesn't have a sporting purpose"? Have seen me try to shoot skeet?
... there really isn't reason at all you can own a SAGA-12 and not a semi-auto converted USAS-12. What the hell is the treasury department smoking. It still uses legal and widely utilized ammunition and is of right length barrel length, does the bore size really make that much of a destructive difference if you're shooting the same exact ammunition as almost every other shotgun in the US? I mean, the bore is a little bigger than average but its not exactly a blunderbuss or a punt gun we're talking about here.
A lot of weapon restriction laws aren't very well-thought-out
@@k96man yes, like how any double barrel shotgun that fires both rounds at the same time is "fully automatic"
There were semi auto variants in the early 90s and due to the bore being over .50 caliber was deemed "not suitable for sporting activities" and labeled as a destructive device and placed on nfa
@@pajamas720 Even though there are side-by-side barrel revolvers and pistols that do the same thing and are volly fire.
@@lucassolomon1079 if it fires more than one shot with one trigger pull its "full auto" by law
The Treasury Department has a say in gun laws? What the hell? That doesn't sound right.
Comrade Stalin The National Firearms Act of 1934 is part of the Internal Revenue Code, since it's nominally a tax law. But Treasury no longer has a say in the matter, because in 2002 the ATF was transferred into the Department of Justice.
RedXlV Still though, since when was it a good idea to have a department that deals with money and power (and wants more of it) deal with guns?
Comrade Stalin How often does Congress actually worry about whether a law is a good idea?
RedXlV Rarely.
Looks like a really strong design with that long guide rod.
Wish he was able to do a video on the aa-12 it’s such a cool weapon with a very effective design. I love the low recoil of the aa-12 and how destructive it can be.
My introduction to this weapon wasn't video games, but watching the Stargate series. One of them is in the pilot episode and along with the SPAS-12, features prominently in many of the episodes with the milky-way galaxy Replicators.
I got to fire one of those on full auto when I was in Special Forces and they were evaluating them. I wasn’t part of the evaluation team, just lucky enough to be at the right place and the right time. I’m short, 5’4”, and it looks like it would be really awkward, but it wasn’t, it was quite comfortable to hold and actually controllable on full auto.
This is such an interesting design! Simple, and effective. I'm very thankful you make these videos.
I, myself, tend to run one of these or something equivalent- when I need to clear a whole house. And hopefully take out some tangos along the way.
Seriously, though, these types of weapons are really impressive to behold, albeit very, very serious; like watching a beautiful but entirely deadly wild animal.
I’d never want to be down range of something like this.
When your company is tired of making things that kill by accident and want to make something that kills on purpose.
I knew daewoo as an outside foreign car manufacturer that was sold in the early 2000s but nobody really bought them a whole lot. I was very surprised to hear that name on a shotgun
They also make appliances.
It's amazing how simple the damn thing is.
I can thank Syphon Filter 2 for introducing me to these amazing weapons... would be awesome to own a USAS-12
Man that was a good game
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this. Syphon Filter 2 was the best. The UAS-12 was one of the best weapons in the game, too bad it was so hard to find and only had 12 shots.
I saw it in Syphon Filter too. One of the best games in the past.
A few of those Daewoo rifles you mention saw action on the roof tops of K-Town during the riots of LA back in '92
i think you forgot to say that if you want to change the extraction side, you have to change the extracor on the triggerunit to the other side
+weeeds334 Yes, that is correct.
"Sporting"
Yeah gonna hunt some deer with this, and turn it into ground beef at the same time.
What about killing swaths of birds?
+Baker Tankersley 1-2 12 gauge shell of birdshot is usually enough.
this was meant for bird or foul hunting. so you can get more kills via the amount of lead you throw down range
It can turn venison into beef?
@@Papperlapappmaul Apparently in that person's world .🤔
USAS-12 was AMAZING in the Bad Company 2 game, just a wonderful, fun, gun.
+aethertech Should have see it in Battlefield 3 Pre-Nerf with fraground.
+aethertech ....and in Far Cry 2
+aethertech In BC2 only "S20K" > USAS-12
Though I bet the USAS-12 is a smoother shooting shotgun in real life.
The Rex is all I need, or the Grach 443.
+VattenFlaskaCola123 it was gay. That was the REASON everyone hated that game. period.
Best weapon to dispose of Replicators :3
yaaaas. someone got the SG-1 reference.
this alongside AA-12 shotguns with the drum mags.
but give them to Teal'c.
Indeed.
Daewoo - known thanks to its car - Daewoo Matiz, also they made guns. *cool*
+The crazy Weaponcrafter Saab makes a ton of stuff: Fighters, missiles, UAVs, radars, etc. One thing they don't make is cars though, they sold the car manufacturing division to GM in 2000, and it's been resold a few times since then.
+Alcatraz252
Daewoo makes (or used to make) almost anything you can imagine. Cars, heavy machinery, guns, ships (including massive container ships), washing machines/fridges/microwaves and other household items, computer monitors, telecommunication devices, textile, infrastructure (buildings, roads, dams) and probably thousands of other things I don't know of.
It's insane, really.
Saab don't make cars anymore
john m Aye, but they do produce parts for existing cars.
+Alcatraz252 It's one of those companies that have divisions that make pretty much everything. Cars, guns, ships, electronics, you name it. I used to work for a PC manufacturer that was a subsidiary of their telecom division.
AA-12 Frag rounds
+bolloksitsmeee aa-12?
+Simon Doge AA-12 (Originally known as the Attachison Assault, but now known as the Auto-Assault 12) Is an automatic shotgun like the USAS-12 here. The AA-12 is pretty easy to find as it has a very simple and matte look to it usually and has a rather large hand guard between the handle and magazine
Matt Brine but aa-12 in battlefield 3?
Oh bollocks, I meant the usas! Emotional time with those good memories!
I used a Saiga (12ga AK), pretty nice, huge recoil though, and mine never had auto. I think full auto shotguns are a great idea. Sad that those grand beasts sometimes die because of paper pushers :( the insides of the USAS-12 look facinating. Thanks for the vid!
Meanwhile in Russia
"Hey Dmitri lets make a shotgun that looks an Ak."
"ok, Izhmash, hear me out. An Ak... But 12 gauge"
and it must work like submachinegun
you mean siga-12 & vepr-12 series?
sorry it's saiga-12
@@jinlingli52 how about both?
In BF4, they have this and it’s sooooo fun to get kills when guys are hiding in cover just from the Splash damage. Also, if you like the USAS in Battlefield, you should try the DAO-12 with frag rounds.
eeeeewwwwww. DAO-12 users with frag rounds- thats the BF players equiv of being a nonce in prison, lowest of the low...
(comedy - and easy way to combat the auto-shottie n00bs was sks with flash suppressor and ironsights- 7.62 to the face at close range is one shot kill, the DAO with frags was mostly a 2 shot killer that worked by suppressing targets vsion on first shot for easy coup de grace (sic) second shot-
you just had to be really tight on how worked your corners and with precise angle off elevation with the sks as you did it.)
The ATF was so wrong to classify this as a Destructive Device when in semi-automatic they are no different than any other semi-automatic shotgun. This is really no different than the Origin-12, Saiga-12, VEPR-12,etc. I have always wanted one of these. I have fired a semi-auto and full auto version at a MG shoot.I lusted after this gun after reading an article in the 1980s. I love exotic shotguns. I have the SPAS12, SPAS15,LAW12,DP12,KSG,KSG25 and Saiga-12 and Saiga-20 along with my Origin-12 that I bought because I will never be able to own a USAS-12 or AA12 and it reminds me of those guns.I Love Military/Para-military style firearms especially from the 1980s.
Thanks for another great video Ian. Youre the best at explaining firearms IMO, Ive learned a lot from you.
Pretty simple design and ahead of its time too. Seems like there was a lot of stuff from this era that was ahead of its time or designers still took risks, idk.
It would fit right in today with the popularity of that AK shotgun and other shotguns of the type. Ive always thought the idea of automatic shotguns was silly. Make it semi-auto and youre set. Why didnt they establish a branch in the US like other companies have done to get around import bans?
Oh ya, and it still surprises me to this day how relatively low pressure shotgun shells are. I dont think most people realize this. Probably the reason why a slam-fire shotgun can work safely?...
Safety selector options: Fire, semi & full auto. Now thats a real man's gun right there.
fascinating design! but that "destructive device" term is ridiculous.
+Ecosse57 Technically, if you can spray 12-gauge buckshot shells at 450 rpm sound pretty destructive to me :-)
+Autistic Fingoloid
I think the Striker might be almost as dangerous to the shooter as the target.
+Ecosse57 What i dont get is, how in the world do they deem the Usas and Striker destructive devices but the Saiga 12 isnt?
+bradley mullins They don't wanna make the russophiles clutching their M91/30s sad. Last thing we need is a bunch of neckbeards toting Russian surplus belting hymns about Lenin and Communism marching on the White House smelling like turnips and cheap potato water.
Autistic Fingoloid bradley mullins maybe there were different people in charge at the ATF when the Saiga 12s came to the US than when the Strikers were turned away? I might look that up actually.
Used to see these a lot in the Philippines, mostly used by bank armored van security guards. Each armored van team would consist of 3-4 guards. The driver had a handgun, usually a revolver or a Armscor 1911 9mm, the others had pump shotguns, and one would always have either a norinco type 56 or one of these.
very interesting
Dude i just got asmr watching you take apart this gun.
Oh my god I remember seeing these used by the cop's in Michael Mann's made for tv movie: - LA Takedown, I remember thinking these were the coolest guns I had ever seen (I was only a teenager). As far as I know that's the only film they were used in, it's a shame he didn't use them when he remade the film as Heat, now if the team of robbers were all armed with these that would have been a hell of a shootout
We had these common use in the Philippines used by guards and in firing ranges,a pretty fun gun
i never thought full auto, magazine-fed shotguns existed
Numbers wise, if anyone is interested (values are approximate, individual loads vary sightly);
.22 LR, 3,500 psi
.38 Special, 18,000 psi.
9x19mm, 35,000 psi.
.223 Remington, 56,000 psi
.30-06 Springfield, 56,000 psi
.308 Winchester, 62,000 psi
12 gauge shotshell, 11,500 psi
Correct me if I'm wrong but to change which side it ejects from wouldn't you also need to switch the ejector to the other hole in the lower?
Yes, that is correct
+dontonsblog it is legal with the right paperwork
Hands down one of the most underrated shotgun in the MW3 days
Ah good ole USAS, if you watch Stargate SG1 they were used often in the show by the heroes and background soldiers and on full auto rock n roll as well :D
RustiSwordz An invasion of Replicators, there's a situation where a full-auto shotgun is actually needed. Otherwise full-auto is just a fun switch rather than practical.
Yup, its mainly an anti replicator piece of artillery. :)
+RustiSwordz Was looking for this comment, was not disappointed :)
what a cool design, very clean, yet futuristic even today.
There are a pair of holes for the ejector, I assume you'd have to switch it to the other side in addition to swapping the dust covers?
+Shira Assel Yup.
+Forgotten Weapons so if i remove the dust covers and don't put them back, all i have to do is swap the positions of charging handle and ejector? briliant. and the gun itself is so simple.
+Forgotten Weapons
In my country(Philippines) they sell fully auto USAS 12, is this shot gun good? What are the advantages of this shotgun?
@@VisayasMindanaoLuzon one advantage is the automatic fire capability and also ammo capacity. Most high capacity shotguns have fixed magazines or tubes. This shotgun has a detachable mag so that's a plus as well in the USA the price is much higher than other semi auto shotguns so if you can get it for cheap in your country I would go for it. Hope this helps even tho I'm late.
I used to read a men's action novel series that dated from the mid-80's onward and one of the main characters used a modified version of this gun as his main long gun. Neat to see it in real life!
I always seem to get educational videos teaching things like shapes and colors to small kids as recommendations on your videos...
I think RUclips is trying to tell me something. (｡･ω´･｡）
+Ry P Sometimes I'll get other Forgotten weapons videos recommended on the side but most of the time I think I'm getting the same thing you're getting, videos teaching kids the alphabet and colours and stuff.
Good! Better children learn about weapons than to fear and hate them like the control freaks in power want.
+Ry P like: "mammas and kids! lern to use the weapons and protect yourself!"?
Incredibly cool engineering.
When i find out they have this in a video game I’m like: oh f***ing boy. I cant WAIT to tear these apart.
I Still Remember There Video That They Were Playing in There Booth @ The NRA Convention in Reno Nevada in 1987 ???
The Last Time They Where Anywhere Close to the West Cost. I didn't have a credit card back then So I was Unable to book a Room a Head of Time, got there, All of Reno Was Sold Out, Spent the Night sleeping in My Car , Freezing My
" A's" Off, Finally just started driving around, Just to Stay Warm. But it Was Still Worth It ( and Yes I Was Young ).
It's amazing you could hold this 'destructive device' without being overcome by the desire to kill everyone around which apparently happens.
That made me laugh Unfortunately
+Martin Landart lol like a demolition device
+Martin Landart I remember in my youth having to build a shed out at the local rifle club in Western Australia and being pre cordless days we had no power to drill holes on the angle iron so the old fella who was the club captain got out his SMLE 303 and made holes just the right size. So construction as well as demolition. LOL
+Martin Landart hell if you had enough buckshot and this gun, you could wreck a house real easy!
Haphazardization but what if someone actually did, you can do an awful lot of damage in a classroom, office space or a street corner with these kind of weapons. And don't act like that never happens. It happens way to often in the US
Not all were machine guns. Mine is a semi. Bought before the AWB. It was grand-fathered since I already owned it, but I had to register it as a DD. I bought it because I knew the AWB was going to go in effect.
SPAS-15: Who are you?
USAS-12: You but American
USAS-12: No wait, I'm actually the AA-12 but Korean. You're looking for SPAS-12
aside from the screws, that is a elegant, well thought out design .
Thanks for the sermon Gun Jesus
Lol I pray to gun Jesus every night.
I kept looking at the paper towels sitting above the toaster oven. Next to the big cabinet marked Flammable.
Ah yes, the Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms That Have a Sporting Purpose.
oh shut up, no one needs this fucking thing
@@juliet4093 Ah yes, the Bill of Reasonable Needs, a formative document for the founding of our country indeed
@@seankane8628 ah yes, the Bill of Useful Items. Say, why do the police need it? Aren’t they only going up against American citizens? The same people an American citizen would be up against?
@@juliet4093 >need
@@juliet4093 Why do authoritarians like you always think that if it can't be justified to you, it should be illegal? Wouldn't it make more sense to say the opposite? Or do you just not realize that in 76 years only two murders have been committed with legally registered NFA weapons, one of which was by a cop?
Aa12 is so sick. Can't wait til that video comes
"I'm a god with this! I can control day, and night!"
I remember reading about this back in the 1980's in the old action-adventure novels featuring "Able Team" from the Mack Bolan universe. Carl "Ironman" Lyons used one and I thought, in print, it was the coolest thing ever
When it comes to daewoo, I think of my microwave 🤣
bwahaha, it makes me think of a car my mom had way back in the day, a Daewoo Lanos hatchback..honestly one of the smoothest riding shitboxes back in the early 00's
As a Brit, we're more familiar with Daewoo's cars than anything else they did. Many years ago, I wrote a novel (which failed to sell more than half a dozen copies!) and I gave one of the main characters a USAS-12. With the infinite luxury of "creative licence" I had it converted to 10 gauge 3 1/2" magnum.....
Exactly, Matiz and Nexias and all, *maybe* an Espero here and there
I'm fascinated by the Atchisson shotguns and full auto shotguns in general. It's hard to imagine any scenario where a full auto shotgun would be a better choice than a semi auto shotgun. They're undoubtably cool, but they don't really serve any practical purpose. The AA-12 and USAS-12 are examples of what happens when an engineer is allowed to run wild. Ultimately, full auto shotguns are solutions to a problem that doesn't exist, which is never a good thing from a business perspective.
Ohhh, I remember this one from Soldier of Fortune 2. Got surprised while looking at the floor holding one, and emptied a magazine into someone starting at their feet. By the time it ran dry, there were bits of them EVERYWHERE. I remember it took a while to locate everything, then we found a hand and an eyeball halfway down the next corridor.
I got my high score on Nintendo "Duck Hunt" with one of these!
I remember the first time I saw this in one of my father's firearms magazines in 1989 in a feature of the Shot Show of that year.
At the time I remembered thinking it was a lot like the Atchisson Assault 12 my father had told me about but I had never seen.
Interesting to find out that this WAS the an offshoot of that gun
As an aside now knowing the back story of Maxwell Atchisson selling the drawings and rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber and his company MPS in 1987, and those drawings not being complete to the point that when they constructed the first MPS AA-12 it didn't actually work and Baber had to hire Boje Cornils to basically find a way to make it work.
Cornils then spent 18 years figuring out how to make it run correctly......like the U USAS LOL
So it took Cornils 18 years to make the firearm in those incomplete drawings into a functioning firearm
Meanwhile Atchisson sold those incomplete drawings in 1987 and two years later had a fully functioning USAS-12 to sell 30k units of.......
I'm thinking Maxwell Atchisson pulled a fast one on Baber and sold him incomplete and/or early drawings of the AA-12 and kept the complete knowledge he had gained after all his efforts from 1972-1987 developing the AA-12 and used that to make the fully functioning USAS-12 a year later
now you have power over day and night!!! bff anyone?
Not in Battlefield 4
Brilliant design !!! Love the simplicity and solid looks,
Does the destructive device classification apply only to semi-auto versions of this gun? Or does it also supersede the machine gun classification on full-auto models?
A full-auto USAS-12 is legally both a machine gun and a destructive device, and requires two separate tax stamps.
What are the costs of the tax stamps?
I was watching Stargate SG1 and was noticed this gun. I had no idea what it was until now. Thanks, gun Jesus.
Great video. Do you think you could find a KS-23 shotgun/carbine to do a video on?
+Jeremy Denmeade He would need to go to Russia for that.
+tengu190 I smell a kickstarter in the making.... I bet Ian would love to go to the great patriotic war museum :)
+Jeremy Denmeade Strange weapons. I love the idea of a 23mm less lethal rubber bullet.
+Puse And they even have a version that's sold to civilians for hunting. Presumably the TOZ-123 is used for hunting bears, since it would be overkill for anything smaller.
@@RedXlV They are not really as powerful as their gauge would indicate.
I think you have to swap the ejector to the right too to change the ejection direction
M16: who are you?
USAS-12: I’m you but can turn of the sun
i love that the playlist is called “for dinosaur hunting”
Ikr
Really like this gun :)
i like how the assemble is covered in the videos
I'm probably incorrect but aren't the Streetsweeper and Stryker (or Striker depending on who you ask) the same weapon just differently named for different markets? I'm thinking of another video from Forgotten Weapons that covered the Streetsweeper/Stryker (Striker) which threw this up.
+Andrew Ince No, they are slightly different.
+Forgotten Weapons soo the government is banning every firearm outside the states?
I Had no idea that this came AFTER the aa12. I thought this was super old and that NOBODY loved em. Super cool.
"Normally it would be fire, semi-auto, fully auto" LOL sounds like my kind of gun safeties are for beeiches.
What a gangsta ass piece of weaponry my dude 💯
LUBE
Saw it. Checked the comments. Was not disappointed.
6:17 when that "roller" is down bolt cant be locked, it ensures that the locking lug will not hit anything on its way into battery. A groove in the receiver keeps the roller down until the bolt is in battery.
I'M A GOD WITH THIS GUN I CAN CONTROL DAY AND NIGHT
sun disabled
@Noah Douma battlefield reference
Two things to add there was a rare "Pump" forearm that could be added to charge the gun. you would remove the ambi charging handle and forearm and it would replace them I have only see two one on GB and the other at Knob Creek. Also you said that the mags are similar to the Saiga but pre-date them of coarse. It is funny you said that, the MD-20 20 round drum for the Saiga-12 was based off of the USAS-12 drum the proto-type was a USAS drum fitted with the top of a factory 5rd Saiga mag for proof of concept before the molds were then made. There were some other changes made but the USAS drum was the bases for the Saiga drum, compare pics of both and you will see. Plus Mike Davidson of MD Arms talked about it years ago on the Saiga-12 forum.
3:33 Fire, Semi-auto, Full-auto? xD
Something similar used in Stallone's "Expendables" movies. Fired explosive warheads though. Beautiful sound !
No one:
Battlefield 4 Operation Locker: 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 😵
I've always wanted one of these, thanks for the video.
"Sporting" is in the name of the gun! How are they going to say it doesn't have a sporting purpose???
Next those fools are going to say the democratic people's republic of Korea, is not democratic
@@christianweibrecht6555 or that Antifa doesn't actually support fascism
really makes you think
That is a serious gun. Pretty intimidating