Rare Guns: Difference between revisions

* In an episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'', Benson is talking to a slightly-unhinged stalker at a gun range, where the stalker girl is firing a chrome-finished .50AE Desert Eagle. Benson notes that the gun is "a little hardcore", and then further notes that the ''[[No Kill Like Overkill|14 round mag]]''magazine the woman is using is illegal in New York City.

A [[wikipedia:Pancor Jackhammer|12-gauge automatic shotgun]] with a ten-round drum magazine. Can (theoretically) empty itself in less than four seconds. It also has the oddball feature of being able to remove its magazine and use it as an anti-personnel landmine with the addition of a detonator. Like the CAWS and the NS2000, it has a futuristic look due to a plastic shroud (which it only has because the only remaining Jackhammer is a shop room prototype.<ref>The temporary nature of these parts is obvious [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKGhqIl4Gw when the gun is disassembled])</ref>) and bullpup format. Less than twenty prototypes were made; a mere ''two'' of these were full auto-capable and only ''one'' still exists. The real weapon had severe problems in semi and fullauto since it depended on the magazine grooves being manufactured to fairly tight tolerances, and the weapon would typically only be able to fire two or three shots before failing to cycle. The Jackhammer is oddly much more common in videogames than the production USAS-12 fully automatic shotgun<ref>the rarity possibly influenced by the semi-automatic version, probablyand only the semi-automatic version, being declared a "destructive device" and thus more trouble than it's worth to get a stand-in to scan</ref> or the relatively easy to modify to full auto AK based Saiga and Vepr semi-automatic shotguns. Part of the Jackhammer's commonness is due to itsthe fact that the initial owner of the only remaining Jackhammer was Movie Gun Services, who regularly rented it for use as a prop and for appearancescanning.

* Available in all three ''[[STALKER]]'' games as the "SPSA-14." By contrast Saiga ''and'' Vepr AK pattern shotguns that would logically be far more common in a former Soviet bloc wasteland are completely absent outside of mods.