When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf***er in the room, accept no substitutes. A line made famous by Samual L Jackson in the movie Jackie Brown as he's watching a bikini clad girl unleash lead from a full automatic AK47. And that is exactly what the AK47 can do. It could easily be said that the AK47 is the most popular and famous firearm of all time and it will be around until we are all gone. I wanted to hold off on doing the AK47 for my Shooter Saturday feature just because it's too easy the gun it's just that good.

I've fired semi-auto clones but I've never laid my hands on the real deal but just about every other person on the planet has if you think about just how many there are world wide. Used by more forces than any other firearm and produced by more companies and countries than any other firearm in more types than any other firearm that is just how impressive the history of the AK47 is compared to just about any other firearm that has been put in the hands of soldiers both good and bad.

When most people hear the AK47 name they think of terrorists, gang-bangers and just about any other type of bad guy that you could think of but the AK47 is not just used by the bad guys some peace keeping soldiers also employ varies types of AK47 firearms and with the former prices of semi-auto clones there are many AK47s in the hands of people with no ill intentions. I missed out on the lower priced ones and honestly I don't see myself getting one anytime soon unfortunately.

While most people think that the AK47 is just a wood stocked non-tacticoolable firearm however many companies are out building and designing new parts and stocks to allow the AK47 to take advantage of today's new optics and rail accessories. As well as better more reliable stocks and some companies even designing better magazines as well.

I get a weekly email from Suarez International USA that is almost always discussing something interesting and relevant to the AK47 but mostly these guys are a serious gun school that teaches several different classes using the AK47 and is a great place to learn things from. If I were to ever do a class like that I'd definitely hit these guys up. The e-mail is great though if you never take one of their courses. Buy stuff from them.

Interesting enough the main reason why I decided to do the AK47 now is because I found on the newsstand this last week a new GUNS & AMMO Complete Book of the AK47 magazine it's a bit spendy at $9 but it is just chuck full of AK goodness so pick it up at your local newsstand today.

Video from the Discovery channel on the AK47

Haven't featured a shotgun yet so I thought I'd do a Shooter Saturday on the Automatic magazine fed Shotgun called the AA12 or Auto-Assualt 12. Most will recognize it from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 while others like myself learned about it on that rather amusing Future Weapons show.

Most don't know that the AA12 has actually been around for a long time (first one was in 1972), first as the Atchisson Assault Shotgun which gave us the USAS12 (a more M16 looking auto shotgun) and now we have the Auto-Assault 12 which was developed for today's soldiers. Using Stainless steal and allowing for fouling clearances it was designed to not need cleaning or lubrication until 10,000 rounds and can take some serious pounding and muck.

The new designers did a lot of thinking to make sure that the AA12 can be used in various roles including launching small 12gauge frag grenades that were developed alongside the AA12. It was also designed to be used on UAVs as well. There are several unique characteristics of the AA12. One of those is that the AA12, unlike many assault rifles, fires from an open bolt design that allows for some absorption of the recoil which makes the AA12 very easy to shot as the large amount of recoil that would be generated in full auto mode would be uncontrollable otherwise. Unlike the first AA12 the new one has an 8-round box magazine and optional 20 and 32 round drum magazine. With the Polymer stock and stainless steal internals it's not hard to add accessory rails which allows for adding of tactical and optical accessories as well.

I haven't maxed out the AA12 in MW2 so I don't know if you get the drum magazine when you get the extended mag unlocked but hey it's a fun shotgun until you unlock the better duel welding ones later in the game and I wouldn't mind finding an AA12 that someone would let me shot as I think it would be fun to test and you know several years ago I did actually see a USAS12 semi-auto at Impact Guns here in Boise that was for sell. They only wanted $700 at the time.

Here's a video of the AA12 in testing. You can find the Future weapon clip of it on YouTube as well.

It took me a while to decide what firearm to feature in today's Shooter Saturday and I finally settled on the H&K G36. There are several different versions including the civilian H&K SL8 version which some converted to semi-auto only G36k rifles. The reason I went with this rifle was sort of a round about process of elimination of H&K guns while looking at movies.

The G36 is definitely an interesting very late 20th century Assault Rifle that was designed in the 90's to replace the old G3 Rifle being used by the German Military. You can find the G36 in a ton of Hollywood movies as it looks very futuristic. The Rifle is interesting in it's design making good use of Steel inserts in a reinforced polymer case with see-through magazines with molded on clips that allow magazines to be clipped together. The fire mechanism is also interesting as a modified short stoke gas piston with the charging handle mounted to the top of the firearm allowing for ambidextrous use along with the fire-select switch and magazine release. With the gas piston system it also allows the Rifle to come with a skeletonized folding stock a first at the time for anything other than the crappy wire version that you could get with the AK-47.

As a civilian the only version you could get was the SL8 that had an entirely different modular stock I've seen both but haven't had a chance to fire either one as the SL8 was $2200 and the G36 was a privately owned conversion with a G3 trigger pack. I definitely wouldn't mind owning a converted semi-auto G36 it looks like it would be an interesting rifle to have and shoot. But until then you'll just have to watch some videos like I do.

There was a plan to create an SAW version of the G36 as well but from what I understood back in the day it was canceled because the rate of fire would melt the plastic furniture not exactly a good thing.