Invasion! (2000 AD) - The Weapons of Bill Savage

The Weapons of Bill Savage

When Invasion! started, Bill Savage was armed with a double-barreled side-by-side shotgun. After getting into contact with the British Resistance, he was given a pump-action shotgun. Throughout the original series and in the new Savage series, Bill Savage is shown to be skilled in the use of various types of firearms - both friendly and enemy.

The various firearms Bill Savage uses in the Invasion! and Savage series comics, besides his tried and trusted double-barreled side-by-side shotgun, are:

• Various types of AK rifles the Volgan Army uses

• The Beretta Model 92FS pistol (as seen in Savage: Taking Liberties, in which he used this in conjunction with his pump-action shotgun)

• The Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun

• The Kalashnikov AKSU-74 assault rifle (as seen in the recent Savage series)

• The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle 7.62.mm automatic rifle (as Invasion was published in 1977, the writers had no idea that by 1999 the British Army would be using the L85 series of 5.56.mm rifles)

• The Remington Model 870 pump-action shotgun (the pump-action shotgun Bill Savage uses resembles the Remington Model 870)