Personally I believe every American Family Should be trained and own one!
Seeing as a .50 certainly does limit where a terrorist sniper can hide for cover I agree that having lots of trained civilians capable of effectively using one makes sense, but for everyone to actually own one I think is pushing it.
Military Companies do not arm every soldier with a .50 because they are primarily used as an anti-vehicle weapon. Stop the vehicle and then use M-16's/ mortars/etc. to kill the enemy soldiers.
Now guys like like Texas Cowboy, Eaker and Squantos think that these .50's should come with a young fella to carry it and the ammo, make coffee and clean it when they are done shooting. Kinda like a support maintenance team. LOL
You may call me Bawana ...........:o)
Stay safe !
You almost had that right, B4.
Replace "fella" with "girl", and you got it.
Actually, I'll do the shootin', totin' and cleanin'.
I want someone to give me a nice back and foot rub after a hard day at the range.
For some reason, Eaker and Squantos haven't volunteered for that duty.