AA-12

"This rapid-fire shotgun equipped with a drum magazine is known for its minimal recoil and high level of accuracy."

- The Arsenal

Overview
The AA-12 was released Tuesday, February 23, 2010. The gun comes standard with a 20-round drum magazine, with another magazine in reserve. It should be noted that although it boasts the fastest fire rate out of the current shotguns, it also sports the least amount of damage in its category. The AA-12 also has small spread especially for a shotgun, controllable, fast-settle-down recoil, the highest clip of a shotgun (20/20 and can accept magazine mods), a relatively fast reload, and has a fully automatic fire mode. The AA-12 is fast becoming popular with various players of Combat Arms. Strictly speaking the AA-12 is referred to in-game as a 'noob' weapon due to its ability to spam bullets. It can be pretty good in Quarantine since it has the high knockback of a shotgun plus a large magazine.

Trivia

 * The AA-12 is often compared to the Saiga 20K because they have many things in common.
 * The AA-12, being a very weak 2 hit kill can be considered underpowered but its high fire rate can bring it into the rank of an average gun.
 * It shoots a volley of 6 bullets.
 * It cannot shoot during reload just like the Saiga 20K.
 * This is considered one of the best guns for Quarantine, especially when you camp under the bridge on Kill Creek.
 * In real life, it can use 20mm grenades as ammunition.
 * The way the player holds the shotgun may seem awkward, with his thumb on top of the gun, but in real life this type of grip is used to help control recoil.
 * The AA-12 in game has a huge visual kickback after each shot, but the AA-12 in real life was designed to have very low recoil.
 * In real life, this gun is VERY heavy, roughly 6.8 kilograms when loaded with a 20-round drum magazine.
 * When created, this gun was intended to have a 32-round drum magazine.
 * In real life, the AA-12 does much more damage. It might be considered by terrorists as "OPK."
 * In reality, the AA-12 can use smaller, 8 round magazines.
 * It was seen in the TV show, "Future Weapons"

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