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M1903 Springfield isn’t used today but it was in service for 60 years.

Colt M1911 .45 pistol, which was used by the U.S. military from the 1911 until 1986: 75 years.

The Browning M1919 Machine Gun, still very much in use today: 102 years.

M2 .50 caliber machine gun. Ma Deuce. Introduced in 1933, the M2 is an old workhorse that isn’t going out to pasture anytime soon: 88 years

M60 was introduced in 1957, it was perhaps the best Cold War era general-purpose machine gun: 64 years


4 posted on 02/06/2021 7:07:57 AM PST by null and void (Since I'm a punster, a jokester, and a well rounded funny guy, my personal pronoun is "He He")
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M1903 Springfield is the first rifle bigger than a .22 that I ever shot. I was about 13 at the time. I remember not liking the recoil very much. I was much skinnier than I am today. I wished I had one. They used to be very cheap to buy and now they are costly.


21 posted on 02/06/2021 9:10:39 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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