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Vehicle-mounted M2 .50 caliber machine guns in May 2005. M2HB - heavy machine gun chambered in .50 BMG used primarily on vehicles. M240B - 7.62×51mm medium machine gun used by infantry, and light vehicles and helicopters. Mk48 Mod 1 - 7.62×51mm light machine gun, used by US MARSOC. M249E4 - 5.56×45mm
The .50 BMG ( .50 Browning Machine Gun ), also known as 12.7×99mm NATO, and designated as the 50 Browning by the C.I.P., [1] is a .50 in (12.7 mm) caliber cartridge developed for the M2 Browning heavy machine gun in the late 1910s, entering official service in 1921.
Pages in category ".50 caliber handguns". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm) cartridge.
3-inch/50-caliber gun. The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50 = 150 in or 3.8 m). Different guns (identified by Mark numbers) of this caliber were used ...
M45 Quadmount. The M45 Quadmount was a towed anti-aircraft gun consisting of four .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns mounted in pairs on either side of an armored open-top gunner's compartment with electrical laying. It was developed by the W. L. Maxson Corporation to replace the earlier M33 twin mount (also from Maxson). [2]
Tiahrt Amendment. Violent Crime Control. and Law Enforcement Act. United States portal. v. t. e. The .50 Caliber BMG Regulation Act of 2004 is a law in the state of California that effectively banned all .50 BMG -caliber rifles from being sold in the state. The law took effect on January 1, 2005.
The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) of the barrel . Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the ...