Posted on 07/30/2004 8:17:31 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
I am filling out a survey about gun ownership and have been asked about a .50 cal BMG rifle.
Could you please explain to me what this is and what it's used for?
Thank you
"Could you please explain to me what this is and what it's used for?
What your question means to me is you know nothing about guns, so the survey you fill out will be filled with ignorance on other things, not just the .50
If you were interested in guns, you would not come here to ask, you would know where the dedicated source sites are on the web.
I get junk surveys every day on subjects I know or care nothing about, they are filed under W immediatly. Why don't you do the same in this instance, don't give input on matters you know nothing of.
I am filling out a PAC Committee Survey. The NRA survey was a snap, but this survey from the Michigan Coalition for Responisble Gun Owners is more difficult. This is the question that has me stumped. So before I answer I just wanted as much information about this gun.
Well said. I had a lot of time on the Ma Duece in the Corps and LOVED shooting that gun. Loved watching it chop it's way through just about everything in it's path. Fun to shoot.
An ugly combination of words.
before I can answer if the .50 cal BMG is a fine private citizen gun, I think that it's important to know it's practical usage.
It's practical usage is to kill stuff. That makes it a fine private citizen gun.
Your comment should be directed elsewhere.
In the 80's, companies like Barrett and EDM developed bolt action, man portable rifles like those shown above, used for long range and anti-materiel sniping.
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Do you know what GOOGLE is?
I like mine because I can just "phone in" hold ups to all liquor stores in a 2 mile radius.
The Browning .50 caliber machine gun was created by John Moses Browning, the most inventive of all American firearms designers. The machine gun was created for the United States Army 80 years ago and it is still in service today.
Orignially the machine gun was made in both watercooled and aircooled versions, the aircooled version is the one still in use.
About 25 years ago, a handful of companies started making bolt action and semi-automatic rifles to fire the .50 BMG cartridge. There are a considerable number of long range target shooters that enjoy shooting these kinds of rifles.
The cartridge itself is a very large round, the full metal jack bullet is about 750 grains heavy, especially considering that many deer rifles of the .30 caliber area shoot 140 to 180 grain bullets.
Many aircraft the USA had in WWII used the aircooled BMG as main armament, both fighters and bombers.
There is no recorded use of one of a .50 BMG gun of any configuration used in a criminal attack in America but that has not stopped an all out campaign to ban them by various gun confiscation groups, whose claims are often outright lies.
It should be alarming to anyone that these VERY EXPENSIVE target rifles, never used in crime, are under attack by gun control/confiscation groups. These people really just want the guns rounded up in America and all of us forceably disarmed.
There are some good reasons why gangstas do not buy nor use these rifles in criminal attacks:
Cost: cheap single shot versions: four grand and up
Weight: average of a decent target rifle version is 36 pounds or so.
Length: four feet long or more
So, no gangsta is going to plunk down four thousand dollars for a very heavy rifle that he can't tote or even shoot out of a car window. So ask yourself, why the screaming over banning them? Good question.
Join the NRA today and fight these groups that seek to disarm us, not only of target rifles but our very right to defend ourselves from criminal attack.
The US is presently developing a 100 caliber rifle that uses computer controlled projectiles and can fire 400 rounds per minute. The computer can put a single exploding round inside of a window at over 2000 yards. Also, can be fired as a non-computer controlled weapon.
Yes, 100 caliber means about a 1 inch projectile.
Correction- bolt action and semiauto, manportable rifles in caliber .50 BMG.
Congratulations. It is my opinion that every American should own a weapon and know how to operate it.
Thank you for your insults, they are noted.
I came here to become informed. I stated that I know very little about this type of gun and the sites that I was researching didn't give me practical information.
I am sorry if you feel that my asking for help on this question makes me ignorant.
No sweat. Ammoman owned and operated by a retired Marine and he will work with you on splitting orders, answering questions, etc. I like the free shipping since .45cal and 30.06 is HEAAAAVY when ordering en masse.
I think the rifles typically weigh about 35 lb. The other characteristic they have is the oversize muzzle-brake (to help reduce the recoil to manageble levels). A consequence is a VERY LOUD report.
They don't really shoot down airplanes, you know.
Since when has "practicality" been a measuring stick for firearms ownership. The Second does not read, "A Right to keep and bear arms as long as they are practical."
Good grief, you're beginning to sound like John Kerry.
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