SPAS-12

The SPAS-12 is a shotgun in AniPhobia, obtainable from Mista's Shop after reaching level 18.

Overview The Franchi SPAS-12 (Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun-12) is an Italian combat shotgun manufactured by Luigi Franchi S.p.A from 1979 to 2000. It is capable of semi-automatic or pump-action operation with it being designed primarily as a semi auto but also having the option of a pump action fire-mode used to reliably fire low-pressure ammunition such as tear gas rounds.

The SPAS-12 was intended to be a rugged military combat shotgun, hence its name. In 1990, Franchi renamed the shotgun to Sporting Purpose Automatic Shotgun for continued sales to the United States as a limited-magazine-capacity, fixed-stock model until 1994 when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was introduced. By the time the Federal Assault Weapons Ban had expired in 2004, Franchi had ended production of the SPAS-12 in 2000 to focus on the production of the SPAS-15.

In-game
The SPAS-12 is the cream of the crop shotgun, being able to fire much quicker compared to the pump action Mossbergs 500/500S and the Remington 870, allowing the SPAS-12 to effortlessly deal massive amounts of damage in a short space of time, against common enemies, the SPAS-12 can completely sweep hordes of them without much issue thanks to its semi-auto firing mode and 8 shell capacity.

Against bosses, the SPAS-12 can be used to constantly hammer their health with headshots with a whole tube being able to shave off huge chunks of health while another player can constantly deal damage with a ranged weapon.

However because it can be fired much faster than a pump-action shotgun, this comes at the cost of being able to shred through its ammo pool quickly if one is not careful, thankfully shotgun ammo is relatively common meaning that it's easy to replenish the SPAS-12's ammo pool. Known Bugs
 * The SPAS-12 has a similar bug with the M1887 where the damage dealt returned as cash is lower than the damage dealt by the player.

Trivia
 * The SPAS-12, along with the REM-11-87 are the only semi-automatic shotguns in the game.