It's become heavily associated with the use of FRAG-12 rounds thanks to Military Police Systems' efforts to work together with the designers of the shell, to the point that many people think it's the only gun capable of using them they are actually designed to be compatible with any 12-gauge shotgun that can load 3-inch shells, the AA-12 only being a particularly notable potential user of it thanks to the fact that specialty shells like it are typically designed solely for use in pump-action models. Many Youtube videos and fan commentaries have dubbed it "The Deadliest Shotgun in the World". After Atchisson sold the patent to Military Police Systems in 1987, the weapon suffered from a long period of Development Hell and finally resurfaced during the Turn of the Millennium. It is fed either from an 8-shell box magazine or either a 20-shell or a 32-shell drum magazine. ![]() The original design of this weapon draws heavily on that of the AR-15 rifle (scaled up into a shotgun, obviously the earliest prototypes even used the same handguards and had similar front sights as the early M16 models) and served as the basis for many other automatic shotgun designs, such as the Daewoo USAS-12, among others. ![]() The AA-12 (also known as the Auto Assault-12 and formerly the Atchisson Assault Shotgun) is a shotgun designed in the year 1972 by one Maxwell Atchisson.
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