Franchi SPAS-12

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:

Franchi SPAS-12 with optional screw-on choke - 12 Gauge

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

Franchi SPAS-12 short - 12 Gauge

Franchi SPAS-12 combat shotgun with no stock – 12 Gauge

Film

• Lobby Guards, Keanu Reeves as Neo, and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in The Matrix

• Ministry of Information (M.O.I.) troops in Brazil

• SWAT Troops in Teen Agent

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in The Terminator

• Bob Peck as Robert Muldoon and Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

• Hunter in The Lost World: Jurassic Park

• Denzel Washington as Lt. Parker Barnes in Virtuosity

• The First Assassin in the door to kill Julie, played by Téa Leoni in Bad Boys

• Robby Gee as Vincent in Snatch

• Michael Sheen as Lucian in Underworld

• Chi McBride as Lt. John Bergin in I, Robot

• Chow Yun-Fat as Ken Lee in A Better Tomorrow II

• Rutger Hauer as John Ryder in The Hitcher

• Soldier in Babylon A.D.

• Used by Shogo Kawada in Battle Royale(Film)

• Commander Helena Braddock in Ghosts of Mars

• A modified version with LED lights on the heatshield in " The Wraith"

• Brandon Lee in Legacy of Rage

• Powers Boothe as Bill Markham in The Emerald Forest

• Orlando gang member in Crank: High Voltage

Television

• 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: DS9

• 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")

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 (incorrectly holding only 6 rounds instead of 8.)

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

• The Specialists

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

• Battlefield: Bad Company

• Dino Crisis

• 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")

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

• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (as SP12)

• Hitman: Contracts

• Stranglehold

• SOCOM: Combined Assault

• Conflict: Desert Storm 2 Back to Baghdad (incorrectly shown as being capable of full auto fire)

• Postal 2

• 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")

• Rainbow Six: Vegas

• Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

• Resident Evil: Code Veronica

• Resident Evil Outbreak

• Resident Evil Outbreak File 2

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty

• 24:The Game (as the "Gray MK5 ")

• Killzone

• Project I.G.I

• 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

• Left 4 Dead: 2 (fired semi-auto, 10 rounds, w/ the flashlight)

Anime

• Red Shield personnel in Blood+

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

• B.C. in Vandread

• Paolo in Noir

Animation

• Boondocks, The

• South Park