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The Franchi SPAS-12 is a combat shotgun manufactured by Italian firearms company Franchi from 1979 to 2000. The SPAS-12 is a dual-mode shotgun, adjustable for semi-automatic or pump-action operation. The SPAS-12 was sold to military and police users worldwide, as well as on the civilian market, and has been featured in many films, TV shows, and video games.

The appearance and intended purpose of the SPAS-12 initially led to its 'military' designation as a combat shotgun. The SPAS-12 was designed from the ground up as a rugged military shotgun, and it was named the Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun. In 1990, Franchi renamed the shotgun the Sporting Purpose Automatic Shotgun, which allowed continued sales to the United States as a limited-magazine-capacity, fixed-stock model until 1994. Following the United States Federal Assault Weapons Ban, imports of SPAS-12 shotguns to the United States were stopped. In September 2004 the ban expired, but Franchi had ended production of the SPAS-12 in 2000 to focus on the manufacturing of the SPAS-15 model.^{[citation needed]} The SPAS-12's factory retail price in its final year was US$1,500 averaged for its final sales outside the United States to non-restricted countries.^[1]

Design[edit]

The SPAS-12 was designed to function primarily in semi-automatic mode, with the pump-action mode used to reliably fire low-pressure ammunition such as tear gas rounds or less-lethal bean bags. The firing mode is switched by depressing the button under the fore-grip and also sliding the fore-grip forwards or backwards until it clicks into position allowing the rotating sleeve to open or close the two gas ports.

The SPAS-12 has a magazine cut-off feature, which prevents loading a new round from the internal magazine when the gun is cycled. This lets the operator load a specialized round into the chamber without firing the whole magazine first. A unique feature of the SPAS-12 was the hook on folding-stock variants. This hook could be rotated in 90-degree increments, so it would fit under the user's forearm when the stock was extended. In theory, with the stock supported under the forearm, the gun can be fired with one hand; an example would be letting the user fire from a vehicle through the passenger-side window while driving.

SPAS-12 models feature two safeties: (i) a lever style or push button style safety, and (ii) a 'quick employment safety'. Lever safeties were recalled by Franchi and were replaced through the importer American Arms in the early 1990s.^[a] There are two types of push-button safeties. The earliest version would release the hammer on safe up to 1/4in. of travel when the trigger was depressed; this would cause a lockup of the action that would require the user to re-lock the bolt assembly to the rear to reset the hammer and then reload the chamber. The later version installed a detent and machined hole in the trigger group frame to prevent an action lock; the detent would prevent the hammer from engaging when the trigger was depressed and would prevent an action lock from occurring. The quick employment safety, which is on the left side of the trigger guard, disconnects the trigger when put into safe mode. The quick employment safety can be disengaged with the trigger finger when ready to fire and is intended for competition or tactical use. A third safety type, a pistol grip safety similar to the later-developed SPAS-15, is known to have been developed by Franchi for the SPAS-12, however the pistol grip safety was not offered for sale to the general public.

A B-Square rail mount for optics was available for a short time in the 1990s as an aftermarket accessory.

The barrel of the SPAS-12 was externally threaded to accept a variety of attachments. The barrel is cylinder bored and spreads a normal shot charge to about 900mm at 40 meters.

There are four different Magazine Extension Tubes manufactured for the SPAS 12:

1. The 5-shell was designed for the 18' barrel.
2. The 6-shell was designed for restriction on the standard 21.5' Sporting Purpose model.
3. The 7-shell was designed for the 19 7/8in. Barrel.
4. The 8-shell was designed for the 21.5 Special purpose model.

Many choke types original and aftermarket exist for the SPAS-12.^[2] A 44mm grenade launcher used by France was used for explosive grenades capable of a range of 150 meters.^[3] A factory shot diverter that spreads shot vertically or horizontally was originally included with earlier model SPAS-12's, There are many known reproduction diverters.^[4]

SPAS-12, SAS-12 and LAW-12 Model Differences[edit]

Four different stock styles exist. The first version of the SPAS-12 manufactured with the wooden detachable stock with the standard grip. Models were later available with the folding metal stock with hook. A rare aftermarket Choate skeleton stock (Approx: 150-180 Choate stocks Manufactured for the shotgun)^[5] with an AR15 style grip was available for a short time in the early 1990s. Mount and blade warband level up troops cheat. After the United States imposed import restrictions on the SPAS-12 in 1989, a version was released in 1990 with the synthetic hollow fixed stock and a six shell capacity to comply with federal regulations for sporting purposes.

Four different factory barrels manufactured for the SPAS-12.

1. (Very Rare) 18-inch (46 cm) 'shorty' made for Law Enforcement/Military originally distributed mainly in France. This is the only known model to receive the pistol grip safety.^[6]
2. (Very Rare) 19-7/8 in. found scattered on a very few of the 1983 'AL' proofed SPAS-12 Shotguns. These were made for Law Enforcement/Military originally.
3. (Common to the United Kingdom) 21-1/2' as a one piece barrel converted to a 24' UK legal barrel. This barrel adds with a 2.5-inch (6.4 cm) choke tube brazed or silver-soldered in place).^[7]
4. (Most Common) The standard 21-1/2' with sight blade muzzle ended on barrel for the special purpose model or the pushed back sight blade with brazed extension for the sporting purpose model.

The Franchi SPAS-12 came equipped with a non-adjustable circular aperture rear sight and a large, non-adjustable blade foresight integrated into the barrel. The LAW-12 was a semi-automatic only and the SAS-12 was a pump action only. These three 'sister' shotguns accepted all SPAS-12 components, notably trigger groups, barrel threaded attachments and stocks. The various magazine extension tubes of the LAW-12 and SAS-12 were never designed to be interchangeable with the SPAS-12 as this would cause issues with the gas selector switch moving from Auto to Pump action on the SPAS-12 model.^[8] The extensions have been known to spin off the front of the SPAS-12 during cycling if the extension was not tapered for the SPAS-12 retaining pin.

The SPAS-12 collector shotguns are wanted for certain style features.

1. The front sight blade is muzzle ended.
2. The longer extension allowing eight shells in the tubular magazine.^[8]
3. The date code on the receiver is proofed 1989 or earlier with F.I.E. (Firearms Import and Export) Corporation as importer.^[9]
4. The barrel length is 21.5 or less and the less barrel length by factory is more sought after.
5. Attached stock is the wooden detachable with grip and or the metal folding stock with hook.

The Pump Only Franchi SAS-12 could accept 3' shells but it did not have a bolt handle cut in the bolt body. The SPAS and LAW could only accept 2​³⁄₄' shells. The SAS 12 has a barrel length of 21.5' an overall length of 41.5' a weight of 7 lbs. 4 oz. and a capacity of 8 rounds in the magazine + 1 in the chamber.

The semi-automatic Only Franchi LAW-12 Model was also restricted by importation in 1989 and banned in 1994 with the AWB. The LAW-12 has a barrel length of 21.5' a weight of 7 lbs. 4 oz. and a capacity of 8 rounds in the magazine + 1 in the chamber. The model was known to have imported with all stock styles used on the Franchi SPAS-12. The LAW-12 models were more common with police sales as an alternative to the more expensive SPAS-12 for departments throughout the United States. The LAW-12 model was notably lighter ' 1.35 lbs. ' than the SPAS-12 and still maintained the same tube capacity of 8+1 shells. Note Law-12 gas pistons were designed as two piece unlike the one piece design of the SPAS-12, they are not interchangeable. The LAW-12 was discontinued by Franchi shortly before the SPAS-12 discontinued in 2000.

US market[edit]

Importers[edit]

In the United States, there were two importers of SPAS-12 shotguns. Importation of the SPAS-12 into the United States began in 1982 and ended in 1989 under F.I.E. Corp. In 1989, F.I.E suffered from major losses of sales due to the president's importation ban, which was a reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. 925(d)(3) that required firearms to have a 'sporting purpose' in order to be imported.

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In 1990 American Arms incorporated purchased all remaining inventories of parts and SPAS-12 shotguns from the now bankrupt F.I.E Corp and began the re-importation of the Franchi SPAS-12 as the (Sporting Purpose Automatic Shotgun) under newly approved restrictions until 1994. The ATF allowed importation of a SPAS-12 variant from American Arms because its size, weight, bulk and modified configuration were such that it was particularly suitable for traditional shooting sports.^[10]

The SPAS-12 was tested by the U.S. Coast Guard and showed promising results but again was not considered cost-effective for a contract over other available suppliers. The Assault Weapons Ban of September 1994 caused American Arms to stop the importation of the SPAS-12 with major losses of sales due to the legal restrictions invoked by the U.S. Assault Weapons Ban.^[11]

Both importers placed numerous additional orders for the SPAS-12 that were never completely filled due to U.S. restrictions throughout importation. This was the reason for such few numbers of shotguns imported into the United States.^[12]

Legal[edit]

A SPAS-12 Shotgun is not an NFA Registry item if it was imported/grandfathered into the United States between 1982-1994 bearing the import markings of F.I.E or American Arms.^[b]

A SPAS-12 and LAW-12 shotgun factory stamped by a year after 1994 is considered an illegal import violating federal importation laws with penalties for possession in the U.S. The SPAS-12 would not include Importation Markings on the side of the receiver before 1982 and after 1994 by the U.S. importers Firearms Import and Export (F.I.E) or American Arms.

The 1994 federal 'Crime Bill', signed into law by President Clinton on Sept. 13, 1994, included the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. That Act included provisions amending the Gun Control Act (GCA, 1968) to make it a federal crime for a private individual to possess or transfer (sell, give, etc.) an 'assault weapon' manufactured after that date. [18 U.S.C. 922(v)]. 'Assault weapons' manufactured on or before that date are 'grandfathered,' meaning that the law does not prohibit their possession or transfer. The law requires that 'assault weapons' manufactured after September 13, 1994 be stamped with their date of manufacture or serial number to identify with factory date of manufacturing.^[13]

SPAS-12 and LAW-12 shotguns are listed illegal for possession in states that hold a 'military assault weapon style' law that identifies the shotguns by name on each states individual ban. The states may have had a registration timeline that would allow it to be grandfathered before each states individual ban. U.S. States and territories listed that ban the Franchi SPAS-12 and LAW-12 currently from future individual civilian possession are, California,^[14] Connecticut,^[15] District of Columbia,^[16] Maryland,^[17] Massachusetts,^[18] New Jersey,^[19] and New York.^[20]

Users[edit]

• Austria: Used by EKO Cobra.^[21]
• Bangladesh: Special Security Force.^[22]
• Brazil: Used by Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais (GATE)^[23]
• France: Used by GIGN^[23]
• Indonesia: Komando Pasukan Katak (Kopaska) tactical group and Komando Pasukan Khusus (Kopassus) special-forces group.^[24]
• Ireland: Used by the Army Ranger Wing.^[25]
• Lebanon: Used by police.^[26]
• Malaysia: National Special Operations Force.^[27]
• Nepal: Nepal Mobile Police^[28]
• Portugal: Used by Portuguese Armed Forces^[29]
• Turkey: Turkish Gendarmerie.^[30]
• United States: Used by police SWAT teams.^[31]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

^a The push-button cross bolt safety has also been known to fail and release the hammer when depressing the trigger on safe and it is recommended that the secondary Quick Employment Safety (lever tab on left side of trigger) is used on both the newer and older style trigger groups in place of the lever or cross bolt safety's to prevent accidental discharge.

^b The LAW-12 and SAS-12 models were known to have no import markings on the receiver but are actually marked by importer on the barrel itself.

References[edit]

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4. ^'Franchi SPAS-12 Factory Accessories'. spas12.com.
5. ^'Welcome to Choate Machine and Tool - Your Premier Source for Tactical Stocks and Accessories for Rifles, Shotguns and Submachine Guns'. riflestock.com.
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9. ^'When Was My SPAS 12 Made?'. The SPAS 12 Project. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23.
10. ^https://www.atf.gov/files/firearms/industry/january-2011-importability-of-certain-shotguns.pdf.
11. ^'The Coolest Email You'll Read All Day'. The SPAS 12 Project.
12. ^'Firearms and Ammunition Technology'. atf.gov.
13. ^http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-110hr1022ih/html/BILLS-110hr1022ih.htm
14. ^'CA Codes (pen:30500-30530)'. ca.gov. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
15. ^'WEAPONS BANNED AS ASSAULT WEAPONS'. ct.gov.
16. ^'Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence'.
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19. ^'S2497'. state.nj.us.
20. ^'NYSAFE Act Gun Reform - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo'. ny.gov.
21. ^'BMI'. www.bmi.gv.at.
22. ^'Bangladesh Defence & Security Forum | DEFSECA'. Bangladesh Defence & Security Forum | DEFSECA.
23. ^ ^abSuciu, Peter. 'Franchi SPAS-12 – The Special Purpose Automatic Shotgun'. National Interest.
24. ^'Kopassus & Kopaska – Specijalne Postrojbe Republike Indonezije' (in Croatian). Hrvatski Vojnik Magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
25. ^Matthew Hogan. 'IRELAND'S ARMY RANGERS'. Tactical Life Gun Magazine: Gun News and Gun Reviews.
26. ^McManners, Hugh (2003). DK Publishing, Inc. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-7894-9973-2%0A9 |0-7894-9973-29]] Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN..
27. ^Thompson, Leroy (December 2008). 'Malaysian Special Forces'. Special Weapons. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
28. ^Shotgun uses by Nepal Mobile Service police^
29. ^Ferreira, Bryan. 'Portuguese Military – Special Operations and Elite Units'. Spec Ops Magazine.
30. ^'SÝLAHLAR'. jandarma.tsk.tr. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
31. ^McManners, Hugh (2003). Ultimate Special Forces. DK Publishing, Inc. ISBN0-7894-9973-8.

External links[edit]

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The Terminator (1984)
d. James Cameron, 108 minutes

Film Plot Summary

The action film opened in the year 2029 in a dark, ruined post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, a scene of annihilation and devastation ('nuclear fire') where AI machines ruled the world, led by a computer network called Skynet:

'The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight..'

The film then returned to the present-day of mid-May 1984 Los Angeles, a nighttime scene, where an indestructible cyborg assassin, the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a T-800 Series (Model 101) model, materialized nude next to a dumpster and garbage truck after electrical flashes. [It was an unstoppable, villainous Cyberdyne Systems cyborg (with a humanoid, human tissue exterior and cold chromium/metallic, skeletal interior - and a death's head skull). The Model 101 series robot was a muscular, 6 foot tall, indestructible, intelligent, killing-machine (without a moral conscience).] It demanded clothing ('Your clothes') from three young punks (one of whom was Bill Paxton), before heaving away two of them, and killing a third with a lethal gut-punch after he had attempted to stab the Terminator with a knife.

A second individual named Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), a soldier of the Tech-Com human Resistance movement of the future (led by Resistance leader John Connor) fighting against Skynet, was also teleported back, and appeared amidst electrical sparks in a downtown LA alley. Also nude, he stole pants from a derelict homeless bum in an alley, and ran from police before stealing a trenchcoat and shoes from a store, and making off with the officers' shotgun from their vehicle. In a gun shop, the Terminator robbed a 12-gauge autoloading rifle, a .45 longslide with laser-sighting, and an Uzi 9mm - ignoring the 15-day waiting period for the handgun, and blasting the clerk to death.

The search was on by both individuals (equipped with weapons and vehicles) for Sarah Connor for different reasons:

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• the Terminator was there to eliminate Sarah, the mother of future unborn son and Resistance leader John Connor
• Kyle Reese's mission was to rescue and protect Connor's mother - and inadvertently to father the child, John Connor, who would grow up and in the future lead a rebellion against the human-made machines and their future masters

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Both Terminators systematically searched and hunted down the three 'Sarah Connors' listed in alphabetical order in the phone book. Big Jeff's (a Big-Boy style) restaurant waitress was the 'right' Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), an independent woman who shared an apartment with friend Ginger Ventura (Bess Motta), who had a sex-obsessed boyfriend named Matt Buchanan (Rick Rossovich). The Terminator brutally shot and killed two other 'Sarah Connors', alerting two homicide police officers: Lt. Ed Traxler (Paul Winfield), and detective Hal Vukovich (Lance Henriksen) to the coincidental fact of the identically-named victims (would he be called 'The Phone Book Killer'?). On Sarah's dateless Friday night, Kyle located the right Sarah, and followed her on her motorbike from her apartment's parking garage to dinner and a movie.

In a restaurant, Sarah heard a TV news broadcast of the two execution-style murders of two other Sarah Connors, and suspected she was the next victim. She fled to the Tech-Noir bar/night-club, noticing that she was being followed (by Kyle Reese). After Ginger and her boyfriend had sex in the apartment, the murderous Terminator entered and killed Matt, then shot Ginger, but realized Sarah was still alive when he heard her frantic voice calling on the answering machine - and revealing her location at the Tech-Noir on Pico Boulevard. He took with him Sarah's school picture ID to identify her. Sarah called the police, and was told to remain there and await police protection.

Both Kyle and the Terminator converged on the Tech-Noir, where Kyle was the first to get to Sarah - he opened fire with his shotgun on the cyborg, and saved defenseless Sarah from being killed. After blasting the Terminator a second time, Kyle convinced her that he was there to protect her ('Come with me if you want to live'). As they fled in his stolen vehicle, followed by the Terminator in a hijacked police car, he told her that the Terminator was an assassin - a Model 101 cyborg created by Cyberdyne Systems, a metal skeleton surrounded by living tissue. It was specifically targeting her, and Reese had come back from the future to protect her:

I'm here to help you. I'm Reese, Sergeant Techcom BN38416, assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination..It's very important that you live..(The Terminator) He's not a man - a machine. A Terminator. A Cyberdyne Systems Model 101..Not a robot. A cyborg. A cybernetic organism..The Terminator's an infiltration unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyper-alloy combat chassis - microprocessor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue - flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown for the cyborgs..The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new, they look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot..Listen and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever! Until you are dead!

When she asked, 'Why me?', Reese further explained what he knew about the grim future, and the AI computer Skynet (defense network computers) responsible for the nuclear holocaust: 'There was a nuclear war a few years from now. All this, this whole place, everything -- it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah..Defense network computers. New, powerful, hooked into everything. Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart -- a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond-- extermination.' Kyle explained how he grew up after the war 'in the ruins, starving, hiding from HKs..Hunter-Killers, patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal.' He showed his forearm with a laser-scanned, burned-in brand.

He continued with a description of one brave Resistance fighter-leader, John Connor, Sarah's future unborn son, who helped humans to barely survive and defend themselves against the machines:

Some of us were kept alive, to work, loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherf--kers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor - John Connor. Your son, Sarah. Your unborn son.

Although they stole a second vehicle (a Cadillac) and were again chased by the Terminator on downtown streets, Reese and Sarah were cornered and apprehended by police. In their custody, Kyle was questioned by incredulous criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen). He told them that he was a soldier fighting for the 132nd under Commander Perry, from the year 2021 to 2027. And for the last two years, he fought under John Connor against the enemy -- 'a computer defense system built for SAC-NORAD for Cyberdyne Systems.' Silberman restated Reese's story - that the computer thought it would win by killing Connor -- 'the mother of its enemy. Killing him, in effect, before he's even conceived - a sort of retroactive abortion.' Reese explained how the computer's defense grid had been smashed by the Resistance forces, and how Skynet had no other choice: 'We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence.' The Terminator and Reese were the last two to be transported back in time, by a time displacement machine that was afterwards destroyed by the Resistance. Reese had no way to return to the future: 'Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him and me.' Silberman regarded Reese's complete story as the paranoid, insane delusions of a psychopath: 'In technical terminology, he's a loon.' The officers explained away the Terminator's survival by claiming that he was wearing a bullet-proof armored vest, and that he was on drugs (PCP) and must have broken every bone in his hand when he punched through the windshield at Sarah.

Meanwhile, the Terminator performed two surgeries upon himself (on his damaged right forearm and his left eye) - the result of crashing his stolen police vehicle. The Terminator, now wearing sunglasses to conceal his injury, entered the outer secured lobby of the police department where Sarah and Kyle were being held. When denied access to see Sarah Connor and told he had to wait, he casually uttered three famous words to the desk captain: 'I'll be back,' before ramming the building with a car. During his assault and massacre of the facility's dozens of officers, the two fugitives escaped from the besieged police station, and fled during a massive manhunt. They hid out in the countryside under a road overpass, where Sarah asked about her future son as she treated Kyle's mild bullet wound. She learned that he was strong and heroic -- Kyle vowed: 'I'd die for John Connor.' Reese had volunteered to be sent back: 'It was a chance to meet the legend - Sarah Connor. Taught her son to fight, organize, prepare from when he was a kid. When you were in hiding before the war..' She was doubtful about her future role as a legendary figure: 'Do I look like the mother of the future?.I didn't ask for this honor, and I don't want it. Any of it!' Kyle delivered a personal message to her from her son: 'Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive or I will never exist. That's all.'

As he told her more about the future, Sarah lapsed into sleep and had a terrifying, nightmarish vision of a future firefight, involving Reese and other Resistance fighters. When Reese returned to an underground human sanctuary, and as he took out his prized Polaroid picture of Sarah Connor, a predatory Terminator broke into their stronghold and opened fire - there was a tremendous massacre of scores of innocent civilians (women and children). Reese's picture of Sarah burned in flames. When she awoke, they hitchhiked a ride and rented a room (with kitchenette) at the Tiki Motel. While Reese went to buy supplies, Sarah unwisely phoned her mother at her Big Bear cabin -- unwittingly identifying her phone number and location to the Terminator, who was impersonating her now murdered mother. Reese returned with ingredients to make a stockpile of homemade 'plastique' bombs -- Karo corn syrup, moth balls, flares, ammonia, and duct tape. She asked if Reese was 'disappointed' in her, and he replied that he wasn't. He described the women in his time as 'good fighters' - but there was no one 'special' and he had never had someone. He mentioned the 'very old, torn, faded' picture John Connor had given him of her, and that he had come 'across time' for her - he boldly asserted his love for her: 'I always have.' Although he realized he had been forward and possibly foolish, she kissed him, and they made passionate love together -- their conceived child would be humanity's future savior, John Connor.

During further pursuit after they were traced to the motel (the two were alerted by a barking dog), the Terminator chased after their stolen truck on a motorcycle, as Reese tossed his explosives at the cyborg behind them. When Reese was seriously-wounded by a gunshot, their truck (driven by Sarah) rammed into the Terminator's cycle and then violently crashed and overturned. Although downed, the cyborg commandeered an oil company tanker-truck. As the Terminator drove after Sarah to run her down, Reese inserted one of his bombs into the piping on the side of the truck, and it was blown up in a fiery inferno. The exterior synthetic skin of the T-800 Terminator was burned away, and only the unstoppable cyborg's metal exo-skeletal frame (with glowing red eyes) remained. The skeletal T-800 rose out of the flames and followed them on foot into an automated factory, filled with giant robotic, hydraulic-powered machines. As Reese commanded Sarah to flee, he valiantly and vainly struck the metallic cyborg with a round steel bar, but was back-handed with the robot's right hand and further hurt. He sacrificed himself when he placed another homemade bomb into the Terminator's open torso, successfully blowing its lower half away. Sarah's left thigh was severely-injured by sharp flying debris from the blast, after which the surviving upper-half of the relentless cyborg continued to crawl after her. She escaped death by strangulation, by luring the cyborg underneath a massive hydraulic press and crushing it. As she pressed a red START button to initiate the process, she yelled out: 'You're terminated, f--ker!' The glowing red eyes of the Terminator dimmed and extinguished. Shortly afterwards, Sarah was placed on an ambulance stretcher, and Reese was zipped into a body bag.

In the film's epilogue, a 6-months pregnant Sarah was tape-recording her thoughts on November 10, 1984, as she drove in an open Jeep Renegade through a Mexican desert: 'If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person could go crazy thinking about this..Maybe it will help if you know that in the few hours that we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.' [She would later present these tapes to her unborn son, John Connor, fathered by Kyle.] Pulling off the road at a gas station, she had her Polaroid picture taken by a young boy hustling her for five American dollars in exchange -- it was the same exact picture given by Connor to Kyle Reese, that he had carried with him and fallen in love with. The film's final translated Mexican words were spoken by the young boy, as the wind whipped up an impending storm: 'He said there's a storm coming in.' Before driving off into the distance toward some mountains, Sarah replied: 'I know.'

Although they stole a second vehicle (a Cadillac) and were again chased by the Terminator on downtown streets, Reese and Sarah were cornered and apprehended by police. In their custody, Kyle was questioned by incredulous criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen). He told them that he was a soldier fighting for the 132nd under Commander Perry, from the year 2021 to 2027. And for the last two years, he fought under John Connor against the enemy -- 'a computer defense system built for SAC-NORAD for Cyberdyne Systems.' Silberman restated Reese's story - that the computer thought it would win by killing Connor -- 'the mother of its enemy. Killing him, in effect, before he's even conceived - a sort of retroactive abortion.' Reese explained how the computer's defense grid had been smashed by the Resistance forces, and how Skynet had no other choice: 'We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence.' The Terminator and Reese were the last two to be transported back in time, by a time displacement machine that was afterwards destroyed by the Resistance. Reese had no way to return to the future: 'Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him and me.' Silberman regarded Reese's complete story as the paranoid, insane delusions of a psychopath: 'In technical terminology, he's a loon.' The officers explained away the Terminator's survival by claiming that he was wearing a bullet-proof armored vest, and that he was on drugs (PCP) and must have broken every bone in his hand when he punched through the windshield at Sarah.

Meanwhile, the Terminator performed two surgeries upon himself (on his damaged right forearm and his left eye) - the result of crashing his stolen police vehicle. The Terminator, now wearing sunglasses to conceal his injury, entered the outer secured lobby of the police department where Sarah and Kyle were being held. When denied access to see Sarah Connor and told he had to wait, he casually uttered three famous words to the desk captain: 'I'll be back,' before ramming the building with a car. During his assault and massacre of the facility's dozens of officers, the two fugitives escaped from the besieged police station, and fled during a massive manhunt. They hid out in the countryside under a road overpass, where Sarah asked about her future son as she treated Kyle's mild bullet wound. She learned that he was strong and heroic -- Kyle vowed: 'I'd die for John Connor.' Reese had volunteered to be sent back: 'It was a chance to meet the legend - Sarah Connor. Taught her son to fight, organize, prepare from when he was a kid. When you were in hiding before the war..' She was doubtful about her future role as a legendary figure: 'Do I look like the mother of the future?.I didn't ask for this honor, and I don't want it. Any of it!' Kyle delivered a personal message to her from her son: 'Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive or I will never exist. That's all.'

As he told her more about the future, Sarah lapsed into sleep and had a terrifying, nightmarish vision of a future firefight, involving Reese and other Resistance fighters. When Reese returned to an underground human sanctuary, and as he took out his prized Polaroid picture of Sarah Connor, a predatory Terminator broke into their stronghold and opened fire - there was a tremendous massacre of scores of innocent civilians (women and children). Reese's picture of Sarah burned in flames. When she awoke, they hitchhiked a ride and rented a room (with kitchenette) at the Tiki Motel. While Reese went to buy supplies, Sarah unwisely phoned her mother at her Big Bear cabin -- unwittingly identifying her phone number and location to the Terminator, who was impersonating her now murdered mother. Reese returned with ingredients to make a stockpile of homemade 'plastique' bombs -- Karo corn syrup, moth balls, flares, ammonia, and duct tape. She asked if Reese was 'disappointed' in her, and he replied that he wasn't. He described the women in his time as 'good fighters' - but there was no one 'special' and he had never had someone. He mentioned the 'very old, torn, faded' picture John Connor had given him of her, and that he had come 'across time' for her - he boldly asserted his love for her: 'I always have.' Although he realized he had been forward and possibly foolish, she kissed him, and they made passionate love together -- their conceived child would be humanity's future savior, John Connor.

During further pursuit after they were traced to the motel (the two were alerted by a barking dog), the Terminator chased after their stolen truck on a motorcycle, as Reese tossed his explosives at the cyborg behind them. When Reese was seriously-wounded by a gunshot, their truck (driven by Sarah) rammed into the Terminator's cycle and then violently crashed and overturned. Although downed, the cyborg commandeered an oil company tanker-truck. As the Terminator drove after Sarah to run her down, Reese inserted one of his bombs into the piping on the side of the truck, and it was blown up in a fiery inferno. The exterior synthetic skin of the T-800 Terminator was burned away, and only the unstoppable cyborg's metal exo-skeletal frame (with glowing red eyes) remained. The skeletal T-800 rose out of the flames and followed them on foot into an automated factory, filled with giant robotic, hydraulic-powered machines. As Reese commanded Sarah to flee, he valiantly and vainly struck the metallic cyborg with a round steel bar, but was back-handed with the robot's right hand and further hurt. He sacrificed himself when he placed another homemade bomb into the Terminator's open torso, successfully blowing its lower half away. Sarah's left thigh was severely-injured by sharp flying debris from the blast, after which the surviving upper-half of the relentless cyborg continued to crawl after her. She escaped death by strangulation, by luring the cyborg underneath a massive hydraulic press and crushing it. As she pressed a red START button to initiate the process, she yelled out: 'You're terminated, f--ker!' The glowing red eyes of the Terminator dimmed and extinguished. Shortly afterwards, Sarah was placed on an ambulance stretcher, and Reese was zipped into a body bag.

In the film's epilogue, a 6-months pregnant Sarah was tape-recording her thoughts on November 10, 1984, as she drove in an open Jeep Renegade through a Mexican desert: 'If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person could go crazy thinking about this..Maybe it will help if you know that in the few hours that we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.' [She would later present these tapes to her unborn son, John Connor, fathered by Kyle.] Pulling off the road at a gas station, she had her Polaroid picture taken by a young boy hustling her for five American dollars in exchange -- it was the same exact picture given by Connor to Kyle Reese, that he had carried with him and fallen in love with. The film's final translated Mexican words were spoken by the young boy, as the wind whipped up an impending storm: 'He said there's a storm coming in.' Before driving off into the distance toward some mountains, Sarah replied: 'I know.'

Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)

This box-office hit, budgeted at $6.4 million, brought in almost $38 million in revenues (domestically), and $78 million (worldwide).

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The low-budget film made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star; 'I'll be back' became a popular catch-phrase.

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Set-pieces: the shootout in the Tech-Noir bar/nightclub, the car chase pursuit in downtown Los Angeles, the police station assault, and the final pursuit by motorcycle and tanker-truck.