re: #374 Dark_Falcon

Iran has sent .50cal rifles which are actually good weapons against ISIS, given that terror groups use of of machine gun-armed pickup trucks (often called ‘technicals’, a Somali term that has since gone global). A couple of .50cal hits to the engine will stop one of those trucks cold.

Not to mention what a .50 cal hit on an explosive vest will do as shown by various military marksmen in Afghanistan… ;)

The .50 BMG cartridge was originally designed at the tail end of WWI as an anti-tank rifle round. Fortunately for the US Military John M. Browning designed Ma Deuce around it instead and, you might or might not be aware, gave that MG single shot capability that has been used to make it be a long range sniper rifle more than once O_o