Armsel Striker and variants

The Armsel Striker shotgun and its variants appears in the following films, TV shows, and video games used by the following actors:

Specifications

(Mid-1980s ~ Present)

Type: Shotgun

Caliber: 12 gauge

Capacity: 12-round revolving cylinder

Fire Modes: Semi-Automatic (Manual Rotation-only on the Protecta)

Armsel Striker

Armsel Striker - 12 gauge

The original Armsel Striker is a South African-manufactured cylinder shotgun, designed by Rhodesian Hilton Walker in the 1980s. Various versions existed, some with the top-folding stock, and others without.

The Striker featured a unique revolver-like cylinder drum, giving it a rather high capacity for the time at 12 rounds. In practice, the Striker is quite awkward to use, as the cylinder requires tension to rotate, and the lack of an automatic extraction system means that when reloading, the user needs to manually extract spent casings with an ejector rod, load in new rounds one by one (rotating the weapon to the next slot after every new round loaded), and finally wind up the drum with a knob in front of the weapon.

Strikers are identified not only by the unique 'knob' that serves as the winding key in front of the drum, but also the drum advance lever on the back of the receiver. The Cobray guns don't have this lever.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Observe and Report		Yuen Brother		2009
District 9		Gunman	barrel extension; laser sight	2009
House of the Dead	Jürgen Prochnow	Captain Kirk		2003
In China They Eat Dogs	Slavko Labovic	Ratco		1999
The World Is Not Enough	Maria Grazia Cucinotta	Cigar Girl	extended barrel	1999
Godzilla		Incorrectly used by New York National Guard Troops		1998
American Dragons	Don Stark	Rocco	wielded with Desert Eagle	1998
Bulletproof	Jeep Swenson	Bledsoe	full automatic sound effects	1996
Escape from L.A.				1996
Fair Game				1995
Point of No Return		One of the thugs		1993
RoboCop 3	Daniel von Bargen	Moreno		1993
Patriot Games	Patrick Bergin	Kevin O'Donnell		1992
Hard Boiled	Anthony Wong	Johnny Wong		1992
RoboCop 2		Gun store robber		1990
Laser Mission	Brandon Lee	Michael Gold		1989
Hostage		South African Soldiers		1987

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Strike Back - Season 3
Strike Back - Season 2
Primeval
Tremors: The Series
Miami Vice

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Date
Enter the Matrix				2003

Armsel Protecta

Armsel Protecta with 12" barrel - 12 gauge

Armsel Protecta with 7" barrel - 12 gauge

The Armsel Protecta is an improved version of the original Striker designed for quicker reloading. It features an auto ejection mechanism whereby some of the propellent gasses are vented off into the chamber and used to blast the previously fired shell backwards out of the ejection port into a large shell deflector, which is the most obvious external difference between the Protecta and the original Striker (the original Striker had to manually eject its fired rounds via an ejector rod). In order to prevent a live shell being ejected when a fully loaded Protecta is fired a special loading gate was added which prevents the first round being ejected, but opens as the drum rotates after the first shot so subsequent empty shells are ejected. In order for the last shell to be ejected the cylinder must still be advanced to the next position and the ejector rod along on the right side of the barrel used.

The clockwork mechanism on the drum was also removed (resulting in the deletion of the winding key) in order to speed up reloading (as the original reload process also involves winding up the drum after reloading), so instead the drum of the Protecta is manually advanced after each shot by rotating the entire barrel shroud and attached forwards grip slightly to the right and then back again. Due to this the Protecta is not actually a semi-automatic shotgun so any depictions of it as such are incorrect.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Kick-Ass		Thug	M4 style stock	2010
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan				2009
Doomsday	Chris Robson	Miller		2008
Battlestar Galactica: Razor				2009
The Punisher	Mark Collie	Harry Heck		2004
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever	Antonio Banderas	Ecks		2002
Rapid Fire		Mobsters		1992
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation		Commandos and rebels		1990
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation	Steve James	Curtis Jackson		1987

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Battlestar Galactica				2004 - 2009
Stargate: Atlantis				2004 - 2009
Stargate: SG1	Richard Dean Anderson	General Jack O'Neill	Configured to fire grenade rounds	1997-2007
Stargate: SG1	Ben Browder	Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell	Configured to fire grenade rounds	1997-2007
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei	.	Thugs	.	1996-present

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Söldner: Secret Wars				2004
Army Of Two	DAO-X		Automatic	2008
Grand Theft Auto V	Sweeper Shotgun		Automatic	2013

SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper

SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper with short barrel and top folding stock - 12 gauge. Visible is the Cobray logo on the side, no visible drum advance lever like on the Striker and the recognizable Cobray 'key' in the front of the drum for winding up the rotary cylinder.

SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper with 18 inch barrel - 12 gauge. Because all legally owned Street Sweepers in the United States are "destructive devices," very few remain in this configuration as there is no law governing the required barrel length of a DD.

The Street Sweeper is the American-made copy of the Striker; the standard commercial version was recognizable by its longer 18" barrel, which was necessary to comply with U.S. firearms laws for over the counter shotgun sales. There were short barreled versions of the Street Sweeper, but like all short barreled shotguns, it required a tax stamp and was a strongly regulated device. When the Clinton Administration declared the civilian version of the Street Sweeper to be a 'destructive device' (like a mortar or a rocket launcher) in 1993, nearly all commercial sales ceased, all existing owners were contacted by the ATF with demands to register their weapons, and the remaining samples in the chain of commerce could only be sold to holders of Federal Destructive Device Permits.

Although it is a copy of the Striker, there is a relatively low interchangeability of parts between the two guns. The Street Sweeper is usually seen in American action films, whereas the Striker and Protecta are more likely to appear in films made outside of the U.S. The Street Sweeper also has the distinctive Key in the front of the drum to wind the 'clockwork' mechanism like the original Striker shotgun.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Class of 1999				1990
Another 48 Hrs.	David Anthony Marshall	Willie Hickok		1990
Total Recall	Michael Ironside	Richter	Heavily Modified	1990
Total Recall		Mars Colony Troops	Heavily Modified	1990
Hard Hunted	Bruce Penhall	Bruce Christian		1992
Hard Hunted	Dona Speir	Donna Hamilton		1992
Rapid Fire		Henchman		1992
Fit to Kill	Dona Speir	Donna Hamilton	Footage from Hard Hunted	1993
Men of War	Dolph Lundgren	Nick Gunar	added muzzle-brake	1994
The Dallas Connection	Gerald Okamura	Fu		1994
Bad Blood	Lorenzo Lamas	Travis Blackstone		1994
Top Dog		A Neo Nazi terrorist		1995
Godzilla		U.S. Army Soldiers		1998
Return to Savage Beach	Cristian Letelier	J. Tyler Ward		1998
In China They Eat Dogs	Kim Bodnia	Harald Blixen		1999
In China They Eat Dogs		A gangster		1999
A.T.F.		US Senator		1999
The Crew	Mike Moroff	Jorge		2000
In Her Line of Fire	David Keith	Vice President Walker		2006
In Her Line of Fire		The rebels		2006
Death Sentence				2007
Smokin' Aces	Kevin Durand	Jeeves Tremor		2007
The Interceptor (Zapreshchyonnaya Realnost)		Kurylo's special forces soldier		2009
Elephant White	Djimon Hounsou	Curtie Church	modified with unknown custom-made attachment	2010
Jerry Cotton	Oliver Kalkofe	Big Morrow	gold plated	2010
New Kids Nitro		female Schijndel gang member		2011
Tokarev	Nathan O'Neil Smith	Anton's thug		2014
Tokarev		Russian Mafia		2014

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Burn Notice				2007- 2010
Supernatural - Season 5	Bruce Ramsay	Paul	Short barreled / "99 Problems" (S05E17)	2010

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Resident Evil 4	Striker		With Protecta automatic ejection and no wind-up key	2005
Resident Evil 5	Jail Breaker		With Protecta automatic ejection	2009
Alliance of Valiant Arms			With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2007
Battlefield 3	DAO-12	8-round default magazine, various optics	With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2011
Battlefield 4	DAO-12	correct 12-round magazine, various attachments	With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2013

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Desert Punk			2004

Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12

The Sentinel Arms (later Penn Arms, now a part of Combined Systems) Striker-12 is an improved Street Sweeper with its own unique feature of a spring-loaded thumb tab on the right side of the drum magazine next to the trigger guard. The thumb tab is used to advance the drum during reloads instead of an advance lever or manually advancing after each shot. They also have an improved winding key.

Later models also add the auto ejection mechanism from the Protecta (essentially combining all the best parts of all the variants into one variant). This variant can be distinguished by having the rear-mounted drum advance lever, and the thumb tab advance lever on the side of the magazine, and the large shell deflector from the Protecta.

Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12 (early model) civilian-legal 18" barrel with top folding stock - 12 gauge

Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12 (early model) with stubby 7" barrel - 12 gauge

Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12 (later model) - 12 gauge

Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12 (later model) - 12 gauge

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Desperado	Antonio Banderas	El Mariachi		1995
Spawn	John Leguizamo	The Clown	Short barreled version portrayed as a grenade launcher	1997

Video games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	Striker	w/ 7 inch barrel	Later model	2003
Battlefield 2	DAO-12		Early model	2005
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned	Assault Shotgun	w/ cut-down 18-inch barrel, full auto mode and 8-round drum	Later model	2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Striker	Various optional attachments	Early model; With Armsel Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector, incorrectly not wound up after reloading	2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	Striker	Various optional attachments	Later model, incorrectly not wound up after reloading	2011
Payday 2	Street Sweeper	Various optional attachments	Later model	2013