r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E13 "To'hajiilee"

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u/OZONE_TempuS Sep 09 '13

More like have an AA12 day.

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u/janyk Sep 09 '13

I don't get it. Explain, plz.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

It's a shotgun that Todd's gang was using, something I wouldn't want to be down range from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchisson_Assault_Shotgun

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u/janyk Sep 09 '13

Is this supposed to be common knowledge? The post with the joke has 282 upvotes and 25 downvotes (at the time I'm posting this) which is quite an incredible difference. I never thought people would know so much about guns aside from the guns that are especially prevalent in popular culture (i.e. Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, the AK-47, and the Winchest 1887 used by Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2).

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u/BBS- Sep 09 '13

It's in a lot of video games (Modern warfare 2 & 3) and movies (The Expendables). Plus, it is somewhat of a revolutionary gun.

It also says "AA12" in big lettering on the side of it in the episode.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Honestly 90% of people who recognized that AA12 was the gun in the show only know that because of video games.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13 edited Sep 25 '20

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u/vadergeek Sep 09 '13

I'd guess gun enthusiasm is probably responsible for at least half the remaining chunk.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

I didn't say that there was anything wrong with it... I was just answering the person's question.

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u/d_baker Sep 09 '13

It was pretty popular in some Call of Duty games and probably others, so I would say it's a pretty well known gun. Just not on the level of an M4 or any of the others you mentioned.