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- From: maxxon@swob.nullnet.fi (Mikko Kurki-Suonio)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: SPAS-12 trivia question
- Message-ID: <ycNuXB3w165w@swob.nullnet.fi>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:04:59 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Sweet Oblivion
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- vtessier@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Vince Tessier) writes:
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- # There seems to be fairly consistent opinion that the Franchi SPAS-12
- # is one of the ugliest/scariest guns around ...
-
- I agree.
-
- # What's the hook on the SPAS-12 stock for? It's usually thought of
- # as a device to allow using this enormously heavy shotgun one-handed,
- # but that's not its principal purpose.
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- And I quote: "With the stock closed the SPAS can be hung over the seat
- of a vehicle by rotating the hook attachement."
-
- # The authority for my answer, which I'll post in a week or so if no one
- # gets it, is a conversation my usually-reliable source had with Luigi
- # Franchi at the '88 AUSA show.
-
- Well, my source is Kevin Dockery's "Compendium of modern firearms", a
- book on firearms for role-playing games.
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