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Re:An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (2009) by nordsieck on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:17PM (#8065099)
"In 1987, Max Atchisson sold the rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber of Military Police Systems, Inc., Piney Flats, Tennessee.[3] MPS in turn developed the successor simply known as Auto Assault-12, which was redesigned over a period of 18 years with 188 changes and improvements to the original blueprint, modifications included changing the AA-12 from blowback- to gas-operated with a locked breech." [0]

Looks like there was a bit of exaggeration going on, but not anything terribly out of line.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchisson_Assault_Shotgun

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Re:An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (2009) by jboggan on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:33PM (#8065201)
I imagine the recoil would have been ungovernable in the original blowback configuration and the reciprocating mass would have been relatively huge.
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