Streetsweeper Shotgun

hi guys thanks for tuning back in the Forgotten weapons comm today we're looking at one that I'd say is a thankfully forgotten weapon this is a streetsweeper 12-gauge these were originally actually designed by a fellow in Rhodesia in 1980 he eventually then moved to South Africa kept developing these and the good ones are as good as these get were actually sold under the name protecta and then striker and then the the street sweeper brand name was kind of the the cut-rate one that was produced here in the US now what got these really only reason these are particularly notable today is that in 1994 actually after some lobbying by the brady campaign these along with a couple other shotguns the u.s. s12 in particular these were declared destructive devices now the way that the NFA is written any firearm that's over a half inch bore diameter and is determined not to have a sporting use is in fact by definition a destructive device so all 12 and 20 gauge shotguns are destructive devices except if they're determined to have sporting value now there have only been a couple like this one that were ever taken out of shotgun classification and made destructive devices so in in 94 that happened on this the owners the ATF did actually a pretty serious job tracking down everyone who'd bought one of these and sending them a nice little letter that told them that they had to either register or surrender these guns and they were allowed to register them without paying a transfer tax but today if you want to get one you have to go through the NFA process and there's a two hundred dollar tax on their transfer so and in fact this is a terrible terrible gun originally it had some some real desirability because it does have this drum magazine that holds 12 cartridges which was very high capacity at the time now today of course you can get yourself a 12-gauge Saiga that has you know 10 round stick mags and 20 round drums and those are detachable where this is it's not permanently affixed but it only comes off for disassembly you can't carry a spare drum for this and reload it that way it is a fully mechanical gun so it functions basically like a double action revolver you can see we have a winding key here on the front and in fact down these holes you can see some of the cylinders the the drum itself is actually made of aluminum and basically we have this loading port you open that up you drop a shell in rotate it drop a shell in rotate it like so until it's fully loaded now the drum will take just over two full revolutions to go to full tension and then what happens is the trigger the it's a fairly long trigger and it does have a double action system like a revolver but the first half of the trigger pull actually pulls back a stud and allows the drum to rotate one position so and it does that even unsafe which we'll get to in a moment so when I pull the trigger you can hear that clunk and when I release it the cylinder moves one now this is currently unsafe that's pretty much how it works even when it's loaded go ahead and unwind this and we can load it up the safety is right here behind the trigger there is also up here on the front and ejector rod this works just like a Colt single-action army and that's how you eject cartridges after you fired them you presumably fire the whole cylinder and then you go back through and manually eject each one we'll go through the the unloading procedure in a minute a lot of polymer on here pretty cheap one of the interesting things this has the original 18 inch barrel because that's what was required to prevent it from being a short barreled shotgun well once these became classified destructive devices the barrel lengths no longer is legally relevant so pretty much all of the ones out there that were registered have had the barrels chopped off to 12 inches because why not you don't have to pay a tax or inform anybody if you do once it's a destructive device it does also have a folding stock it's a terrible stock there's a little detent here that we push in flips the stock over kind of like an mp40 stock but worse nice sharp metal edge that your face rides on not cool anyway let's go ahead and load this up so if you want to watch in here kind of a mishmash of ammo today but mostly birdshot drop one in and then rotate it a show in rotate will put in about half a dozen one nice thing about this system I do have to admit is that you can fire a complete mix of ammunition you know light loads heavy slugs less lethal munitions you could shoot without any trouble because the gun is all mechanical there's no gas or recoil operating system that you have to worry about being capable of cycling the shells so that's all the ammo I have in my pocket so I'm going to go ahead and wind this the rest of the way there we go close the loading gate and now I'm ready to shoot so a couple things to keep in mind like a revolver this has cylinder gap so there's a gap between the chamber and the barrel up here and there is also a gap kind of at the back and what we found when shooting this is it kind of has particulate and gas going everywhere so you'll feel it on your face and you'll feel it on your forearm when you're shooting which is frankly rather unpleasant but I'll do it for you guys so here we go take the safety off now since I didn't load it full I don't know exactly how many empty chambers I have before I get to the first round but of course each pull of the trigger cycles at one so here we go you can hear that double-click that first click is the cylinder rotating and the second click is the hammer dropping I really don't want to put my face up against this stock it's kind of brutal really it's it's terrible shotgun all right now I'm empty so let's take a look at the unloading procedure I'm gonna open up the loading port there now I put the gun on safe and each time I pull the trigger it rotates the cylinder there's my first fired round run the ejector rod pull the trigger ejector rod and continue doing that oh okay so I didn't I ran out of spring capacity so we'll wind it back up to get the last couple no there's a hidden one and now it's all the way on wound if I wanted to really abuse myself here I could go ahead and reload it at this point but I'm not gonna because this is a pretty miserable shotgun there are people out there who really like these obviously they have some Hollywood appeal and they certainly look impressive but not something I'm gonna go spend my own money on so I appreciate the chance to get this one out at the range to do some test firing I hope you guys enjoyed it and tuned back into forgotten weapons comm for more oversized shotguns

Channel: Forgotten Weapons

Views: 4,631,837

Rating: 4.822628 out of 5

Keywords: 12ga, Striker, Protecta, Streetsweeper, Cobray, drum, shotgun, shootiung, cylinder gap

Id: Uoy14h6K5TY

Length: 8min 53sec (533 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 10 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/Scrib214]

If you want to get reeeeally technical, Ian is shooting an American SWD Streetsweeper in the video. It's a crappy American clone of the original South African Armsel Striker. The "Striker" in RE4 is actually based on the Armsel Protecta, an improvement on the original Armsel Striker.

The Protecta has an automatic ejection system and is also not truly semi-automatic: the shooter rotates the barrel assembly to the right via the foregrip to advance the drum magazine to the next shell after each shot. I guess you could call it a side to side pump action rather than back to forward.

None of this stops RE4's Striker from being the best shotgun in the game.

More info here.

[u/Skellingto]

I didn't think I'd ever see Gun Jesus on this subreddit.

[u/Caducks]

It's the Metal Gear Solid 3 thing isn't it. The cylinder gap ends up burning you or something?

[u/Neil_O_Tip]

And i bet the TMP is great in real life. Such bullshit.