Armsel Striker and variants

The Armsel Striker shotgun and its variants appears in the following films, TV shows, and video games used by the following actors:
==Specifications==
(Mid-1980s ~ Present)
Type: Shotgun
Caliber: 12 gauge
Capacity: 12-round revolving cylinder
Fire Modes: "Clockwork" tension-operate drum on most models, manual operation only on Protecta
== Armsel Striker ==
The original Armsel Striker is a South African-manufactured cylinder shotgun, designed by Rhodesian Hilton Walker in the 1980s. Production was financed by the Armsel company, but actual production was done by another company called Aserma Manufacturing. Various versions existed, some with the top-folding stock, and others without.
The Striker featured a unique revolver-like cylinder drum, giving it a rather high capacity for the time at 12 rounds. Unlike a revolver, the cylinder isn't turned by the trigger itself (which would give the weapon an extremely heavy trigger pull); instead, the drum is wound up with a clockwork mechanism, and every time the trigger is pulled, the tension from the mechanism turns the cylinder.
Reloading the Striker is a long and drawn-out process; the Striker lacks an automatic extraction system, and the user needs to manually extract spent casings with an ejector rod, load in new rounds one by one (manually advancing the drum with the rear drum advance lever), and finally wind up the drum with the knob in front of the drum.
Strikers are identified not only by the unique 'knob' that serves as the winding key in front of the drum, but also the drum advance lever on the back of the receiver. The Cobray guns don't have this lever.
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation	Steve James 	Curtis Jackson 	 	1987
Laser Mission 	Brandon Lee 	Michael Gold 	 	1989
RoboCop 2 	 	Gun store robber	 	1990
Hard Boiled 	Anthony Wong 	Johnny Wong 	 	1992
Patriot Games 	Patrick Bergin 	Kevin O'Donnell 	 	1992
RoboCop 3 	Daniel von Bargen 	Moreno 	 	1993
Point of No Return 	 	One of the thugs	 	1993
Fair Game 	 	 	 	1995
Escape from L.A. 	 	 	 	1996
Bulletproof 	Jeep Swenson 	Bledsoe 	full automatic sound effects 	1996
The World Is Not Enough 	Maria Grazia Cucinotta	Cigar Girl 	extended barrel 	1999
In China They Eat Dogs 	Slavko Labovic 	Ratco 	 	1999
House of the Dead 	Jürgen Prochnow 	Captain Kirk 	 	2003
District 9 	 	Gunman 	barrel extension; laser sight	2009
Observe and Report 	 	Yuen Brother 	 	2009
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Strike Back - Season 3	 	 	 	
Strike Back - Season 2	 	 	 	
Primeval 	 	 	 	
Tremors: The Series 	 	 	 	
Miami Vice 	 	 	 	
=== Video Games ===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods	Notation	Date
Enter the Matrix	 	 	 	2003
Cross Fire 	"Armsel Striker"	 	 	2007
== Armsel Protecta ==
The Armsel Protecta is an improved version of the original Striker designed for quicker reloading. It features an auto ejection mechanism, whereby some of the propellent gasses are vented off into the chamber and used to blast the previously fired shell backwards out of the ejection port into a large shell deflector, which is the most obvious external difference between the Protecta and the original Striker (the original Striker had to manually eject its fired rounds via an ejector rod).
In order to prevent a live shell being ejected when a fully loaded Protecta is fired, a special loading gate was added which prevents the first round being ejected, but opens as the drum rotates after the first shot so subsequent empty shells are ejected. Because a used shell is only ejected when the next round is fired, the last shell in the drum still has to be manually advanced to the ejection port position and ejected with the ejector rod.
The clockwork mechanism on the drum was also removed in order to speed up reloading (resulting in the deletion of the winding key and also the rear drum advance lever). The drum of the Protecta is manually advanced after each shot by rotating the entire barrel shroud and attached forwards grip slightly to the right and then back again. Due to this the Protecta is not actually a semi-automatic shotgun so any depictions of it as such are incorrect.
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation	 	Commandos and rebels	 	1990
Rapid Fire 	 	Mobsters 	 	1992
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 	Antonio Banderas	Ecks 	 	2002
Vares: Private Eye 	Tuula Nyman 	Jarmo's mother 	7 inch barrel 	2004
The Punisher 	Mark Collie 	Harry Heck 	 	2004
Battlestar Galactica: Razor 	 	 	 	2009
Doomsday 	Chris Robson 	Miller 	 	2008
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan 	 	 	 	2009
Kick-Ass 	 	Thug 	M4 style stock	2010
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Battlestar Galactica 	 	 	 	2004 - 2009
Stargate: Atlantis 	 	 	 	2004 - 2009
Stargate: SG1 	Richard Dean Anderson	General Jack O'Neill 	Configured to fire grenade rounds	1997-2007
Stargate: SG1 	Ben Browder 	Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell	Configured to fire grenade rounds	1997-2007
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei	. 	Thugs 	. 	1996-present
=== Video Games ===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods	Notation 	Release Date
Söldner: Secret Wars 	 	 	 	2004
Army Of Two 	DAO-X 	 	Automatic 	2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat	 	 	 	2009
Grand Theft Auto Online 	Sweeper Shotgun	 	with Striker drum advance lever and clockwork mechanism; added with the "Bikers" DLC	2013
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Misery 	 	 	 	2018
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAMMA 	 	 	 	2022
== SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper ==
The Street Sweeper is the American-made copy of the Striker; the standard commercial version was recognizable by its longer 18" barrel, which was necessary to comply with U.S. firearms laws for over the counter shotgun sales. There were short barreled versions of the Street Sweeper, but like all short barreled shotguns, it required a tax stamp and was a strongly regulated device. When the Clinton Administration declared the civilian version of the Street Sweeper to be a 'destructive device' (like a mortar or a rocket launcher) in 1993, nearly all commercial sales ceased, all existing owners were contacted by the ATF with demands to register their weapons, and the remaining samples in the chain of commerce could only be sold to holders of Federal Destructive Device Permits.
Although it is a copy of the Striker, there is a relatively low interchangeability of parts between the two guns. The Sweeper lacks the rear drum advance lever of the Striker and has its own distinctive key in the front of the drum to wind the 'clockwork' mechanism like the original Striker shotgun. The Sweeper's winding key has an oblong, flat grip, as opposed to the thicker, more squared key of the Armsel or Sentinel Strikers.
The Lady's Home Companion is a rather absurd variant of the Street Sweeper but chambered for .45-70 Government. It is built on the frame of the Street Sweeper and reuses most of the latter's exterior, but features a rifled barrel and lacks a foregrip nor folding stock (in order to be legally classed as a "pistol"). Like the shotgun version, this weapon's cylinder holds 12 rounds.
The Street Sweeper is usually seen in American action films, whereas the Striker and Protecta are more likely to appear in films made outside of the U.S. 
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Class of 1999 	 	 	 	1990
Another 48 Hrs. 	David Anthony Marshall	Willie Hickok 	 	1990
Total Recall 	Michael Ironside 	Richter 	Heavily Modified 	1990
Total Recall 	 	Mars Colony Troops 	Heavily Modified 	1990
Hard Hunted 	Bruce Penhall 	Bruce Christian 	 	1992
Hard Hunted 	Dona Speir 	Donna Hamilton 	 	1992
Rapid Fire 	 	Henchman 	 	1992
Fit to Kill 	Dona Speir 	Donna Hamilton 	Footage from Hard Hunted 	1993
Cyborg 2 	Karen Sheperd 	Chen 	 	1993
Men of War 	Dolph Lundgren 	Nick Gunar 	added muzzle-brake 	1994
The Dallas Connection 	Gerald Okamura 	Fu 	 	1994
Bad Blood 	Lorenzo Lamas 	Travis Blackstone 	 	1994
Top Dog 	 	A Neo Nazi terrorist 	 	1995
Set It Off 	Dr. Dre 	Black Sam 	 	1996
Godzilla 	 	U.S. Army Soldiers 	 	1998
American Dragons 	Don Stark 	Rocco 	wielded with Desert Eagle 	1998
Return to Savage Beach 	Cristian Letelier 	J. Tyler Ward 	 	1998
In China They Eat Dogs 	Kim Bodnia 	Harald Blixen 	 	1999
In China They Eat Dogs 	 	A gangster 	 	1999
A.T.F. 	 	US Senator 	 	1999
The Crew 	Mike Moroff 	Jorge 	 	2000
Route 666 	 	Russian mobster 	 	2001
In Her Line of Fire 	David Keith 	Vice President Walker 	 	2006
In Her Line of Fire 	 	The rebels 	 	2006
Death Sentence 	 	 	 	2007
Smokin' Aces 	Kevin Durand 	Jeeves Tremor 	 	2007
The Interceptor (Zapreshchyonnaya Realnost)	 	Kurylo's special forces soldier	 	2009
Elephant White 	Djimon Hounsou 	Curtie Church 	modified with unknown custom-made attachment	2010
Jerry Cotton 	Oliver Kalkofe 	Big Morrow 	gold plated 	2010
New Kids Nitro 	 	female Schijndel gang member 	 	2011
Kite 	India Eisley 	Sawa 	 	2014
Kite 	 	Steyns' bodyguard 	 	2014
Wicked Blood 	 	thug 	 	2014
Tokarev 	Nathan O'Neil Smith 	Anton's thug 	 	2014
Tokarev 	 	Russian Mafia 	 	2014
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Burn Notice 	Jeffrey Donovan	Michael Westen	"Breaking and Entering" (S02E01) 	2007- 2013
Supernatural - Season 5	Bruce Ramsay 	Paul 	Short barreled / "99 Problems" (S05E17)	2010
=== Video Games ===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
Enter the Matrix 	Street Sweeper Shotgun	 	 	2003
Resident Evil 4 	Striker 	 	With Protecta automatic ejection and no wind-up key 	2005
Conflict: Global Terror 	 	 	 	2005
Resident Evil 5 	Jail Breaker 	 	 	2009
Alliance of Valiant Arms	 	 	With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2007
Battlefield 3 	DAO-12 	8-round default magazine, various optics 	With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2011
Battlefield 4 	DAO-12 	correct 12-round magazine, various attachments	With Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector	2013
Battlefield 2042 	DAO-12 	 	Striker front sight post 	2021
=== Anime ===
Title 	Character	Note	Date
Desert Punk	 	 	2004
== Sentinel/Penn Arms Striker-12 ==
The Sentinel Arms (later Penn Arms, now a part of Combined Systems) Striker-12 is a licensed American version of the Armsel Striker (Cobray's Street Sweeper was a cheap knock-off copy of the Striker). Patent rights to produce and sell the Striker in the United States was purchased from Armsel by Grant W. Stapleton of Sentinel Arms Corporation in the early eighties, who then upgraded the shotgun to commercial U.S. standards.
The Striker-12 improved on the Armsel design, featuring an improved winding key and the addition of a thumb tab on the right side of the drum magazine next to the trigger guard, used to open and close the ejection port (which is the distinguishing feature differing the model from all other variants). Unlike the original Striker, initial models lacked the rear drum advance lever; the manual instead tells the users to advance the drum with the winding key during reloads.
Later models also adds the auto ejection mechanism from the Protecta and the rear drum advance lever from the Striker, essentially combining all the best parts of all the variants into one variant. This variant can be distinguished by having the thumb tab on the side of the magazine, and the rear-mounted drum advance lever from the Striker, and the large shell deflector from the Protecta.
A large number of video games depict the ejection port button as a drum advance lever, following its depiction as such in the 2009 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. There is no evidence that this works in reality.
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Point Break (1991)	Vincent Klyn 	War Child 	 	1991
Desperado 	Antonio Banderas	El Mariachi 	 	1995
Spawn 	John Leguizamo 	The Clown 	Short barreled version portrayed as a grenade launcher 	1997
Wrath of Man 	Laz Alonso 	Carlos 	w/BATTLELINK Utility stock, railed handguard and red dot sight	2021
Wrath of Man 	Jason Statham 	Patrick "H" Hill	w/BATTLELINK Utility stock, railed handguard and red dot sight	2021
=== Video games ===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne 	Striker 	w/ 7 inch barrel 	Later model 	2003
Battlefield 2 	DAO-12 	 	Early model 	2005
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned	Assault Shotgun 	w/ cut-down 18-inch barrel, full auto mode and 8-round drum	Later model 	2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 	Striker 	Various optional attachments 	Early model with Armsel Protecta automatic ejection and shell deflector; ejection port button depicted as drum advance lever	2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 	Striker 	Various optional attachments 	Later model; ejection port button depicted as drum advance lever 	2011
Payday 2 	Street Sweeper 	Various optional attachments 	Later model; ejection port button depicted as drum advance lever 	2013
Warface 	"Cobray Striker" 	 	 	2013
Warface 	"Cobray Striker Special"	red dot sight 	heavily customized 	2013
Gun Club VR 	"Striker" 	 	 	2018
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 	Streetsweeper 	Various optional attachments 	Released during Season 1 	2020
Resident Evil 4 (2023 VG) 	Striker 	 	Later model 	2023
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