Franchi SPAS-12

Franchi SPAS-12 with butt hook attached to stock - 12 Gauge

Franchi SPAS-12 with stock folded and butt-hook removed - 12 Gauge

Franchi SPAS-12 Short Barreled Version - 12 Gauge

Franchi SPAS-12 combat shotgun with stock removed – 12 Gauge

Note: The SPAS-12 is very often shown as a pump action shotgun firing buckshot. It's a combination action shotgun, capable of pump or semi-auto with the pressing of a button. Usually, the gun is only used in pump mode in the real world when underpowered shells are used. Only full loads are capable of operating the semi-auto gas system. Also, in Semi Auto mode, it has a problem cycling even Hollywood "hot" blanks with a Blank Firing Adapter. Since 2000, production has ceased.

The SPAS-12 shotgun has appeared in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

(1979 - 2000)

• Type: Shotgun

• Caliber(s): 12 gauge

• Weight: 9.7 lbs (4.4 kg)

• Length: 41 in (104.1 cm)

• Barrel length(s): 22 in (54.6 cm)

• Capacity: 8-round internal tube magazine

• Fire Modes: Pump-Action OR Semi-Auto

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Terminator	Arnold Schwarzenegger	The Terminator		1984
Brazil		Ministry of Information Troops		1985
The Emerald Forest	Powers Boothe	Bill Markham		1985
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic)	Stéphane Ferrara	Abel Salem		1985
The Hitcher	Rutger Hauer	John Ryder		1986
The Wraith			Modified with LEDs on the heatshield	1986
Legacy of Rage	Brandon Lee			1986
RoboCop		Detroit SWAT officer		1987
Beverly Hills Cop II	John Ashton	Sgt. Taggart		1987
A Better Tomorrow II	Chow Yun-Fat	Ken Lee		1987
Let Sleeping Cops Lie		French police officers		1988
Hardware	Dylan McDermott	Moses		1990
If Looks Could Kill		SWAT officers		1991
Jurassic Park	Bob Peck	Robert Muldoon		1993
Jurassic Park	Sam Neill	Dr. Alan Grant		1993
RoboCop 3	CCH Pounder	Bertha		1993
Virtuosity	Denzel Washington	Lt. Parker Barnes		1995
Bad Boys		An Assassin		1995
The Lost World: Jurassic Park		Hunter		1997
The Matrix	Keanu Reeves	Neo		1999
The Matrix	Carrie-Anne Moss	Trinity		1999
Snatch	Robby Gee	Vincent		2000
Battle Royale(Film)		Shogo Kawada		2000
Ghosts of Mars	Pam Grier	Commander Helena Braddock		2001
Ghosts of Mars	Ice Cube	James 'Desolation' Williams		2001
3000 Miles to Graceland	Kevin Costner	Murphy		2001
2009: Lost Memories		JBI SWAT		2002
Underworld	Michael Sheen	Lucian		2003
I, Robot	Chi McBride	Lt. John Bergin		2004
Doom			Seen in an armory	2005
Babylon A.D.		A soldier		2008
A Dangerous Man		Chinese thug		2009
Crank: High Voltage		Orlando gang member		2009

Television

• Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

• Fred Dryer as Hunter keeps a Franchi SPAS-12 in his trunk.

• A militant extremist in Star Trek: Voyager (episode "Future's End")

• A terrorist in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• Stargate: SG1

• V.I.P.

• Bugs (episode "Stealth")

• Jim Zubiena as Ludovici Armstrong in Miami Vice (1984)

• It was used in two episodes of Miami Vice (episodes: "The Maze" and "Calderone´s Return Part 1")

• Jeremy Clarkson uses a SPAS 12 on one of the Top Gear DVDs to go automotive clay pigeon shooting.

• Juliette Lewis as Jesse in My Name is Earl (S1E21) (2005)

• Bank robber in Blue Bloods (2010-????)

Video Games

• The World Is Not Enough (as the "Frinesi Special 12", incorrectly shown being capable of full auto fire)

• 007: Everything or Nothing

• 007: Nightfire (as the "Frinesi Automatic 12", incorrectly shown being capable of of full auto fire)

• 007: Agent Under Fire (as the "Frinesi Special 12")

• Army Of Two (as the "FSPS-12" has many available "upgrades" only the stocks are real SPAS-12 parts.)

• Black (short version)

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (as the "SPSA14")

• The Specialists

• Area-51

• 7.62 High Calibre

• Chernobyl Terrorist Attack

• Code of Honor 3: Desperate Measures (not usable)

• Crypt Killer

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

• Battlefield: Bad Company

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2

• Bloody Good Time (incorrectly holding only 6 rounds instead of 8)

• Splinter Cell: Conviction

• Dino Crisis

• Ghost Recon Online

• Half-Life series (incorrectly depicted as able to "double fire," as if the tube magazine is a second barrel)

• Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (as the "SP12 Shotgun")

• Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (as the "Gras-12")

• Hitman: Blood Money (as the "SP12 Shotgun")

• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (as "SP12")

• Hitman: Contracts

• Stranglehold

• SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Combined Assault

• Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad (incorrectly shown as being capable of full auto fire)

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (as the "S.P.A.S 12")

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (as the "Combat Shotgun")

• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (as the "Combat Shotgun")

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (As the "Combat Shotgun)

• Grand Theft Auto IV (Seen in the hands of a police officer during a loading screen, but not in the game itself)

• F.E.A.R (As the "VK-12 combat shotgun", shown to hold 12 rounds at a time)

• Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (full-auto)

• Rainbow Six: Vegas

• Rainbow Six: Vegas (PSP)

• Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

• Resident Evil: Code Veronica

• Resident Evil Outbreak

• Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2

• Resident Evil Survivor

• Splinter Cell (used by hostile NPCs)

• Splinter Cell: Double Agent (used by hostile NPCs)

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (held by clearing teams in Caution and Alert modes)

• 24: The Game (as the "Gray MK5 ")

• Project IGI: I'm Going In

• Project IGI 2: Covert Strike

• Urban Terror

• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

• The Conduit

• Freedom Fighters

• Alien vs. Predator (Atari Jaguar, 1995)

• Far Cry 2 (shown with a 12-round magazine)

• Parasite Eve 2

• Timesplitters (as the "Assault Shotgun")

• Modern Warfare 2 (pump-action only; capable of equipping suppressor, foregrip, and/or various sights)

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

• Left 4 Dead 2 (as the "Combat Shotgun", holds 10 rounds, w/ the tactical flashlight and optional laser sight)

• Call of Duty: Black Ops (as the "SPAS", can fire Dragon's Breath incendiary rounds)

• GoldenEye 007 (2010)

• Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror (as the "SPS12")

• Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998)

• World in Conflict (Cutscenes only)

• Uncharted 3

• Warface

Anime

• Maki in Burn Up! (with stock and butt hook)

• Red Shield personnel in Blood+

• Roberta in Black Lagoon (mocked up as a parasol)

• BC in Vandread

• Paolo in Noir

• Jean Jacquemonde in Spriggan

• Marco in Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

• Manami in Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky (short barrelled version)

Animation

• Boondocks, The

See Also

• Franchi - A list of all firearms manufactured by Franchi.