#50 caliber

[attactica]

The 50 BMG Pistol (The Power Of A 50 Cal In Your Hands !!!)

[kchuk]

Why do mass shooters always use low caliber ammunition? Don't they know that using 50 caliber rounds makes the shootings even more massive? A 50 caliber round can go through several cars or buildings.

All the mass shooters are caffeine addicts, most of them now copycating earlier school shooters' targets and weapon choices, so as a society we should steer them away from targeting schools and grocery stores, and to the places where caffeine products are manufactured. There's publicly available research showing caffeine potentiates the effects of opioids, including endogenous opioids produced by our bodies. It's the opiate of the masses.

[bryce-bucher]

500 caliber contractz demo out!!!1

[brainrotcharacters]

what do you mean wolverine is straight? what wolverine have you watched? he's already a depressed self loathing raging alcoholic. you want to add another burden on his plate too?

[chtoyalt]

i watched d&w for the second time and JUST noticed that somewhere at the very beginning of his and logan's fight against other deadpools our deadpool fucking throws nicepool’s gold plated .50 caliber desert eagle pistols away (probably because they ran out of bullets) and we never see them again

nicepool died from murder so that deadpool could have the gold plated .50 caliber desert eagle pistols and he throws them away two minutes later. wow okay

[lonestarbattleship]

Gun barrels lay outside of the Washington Navy Yard. Likely these are the 16-inch/50-caliber guns intended for the South Dakota Class (1920) and the Lexington Class Battlecruisers.

Date: February 10, 1922

Library of Congress: LC-F81- 17608

[yumishisu]

wade after robbing nicepools dead body

[carbone14]

Soldat américain à côté d'un canon de défense côtière de 406 mm M1919 – Fort Story – Virginie – Mars 1942

Photographe : Alfred T. Palmer

©United States Library of Congress - LC-DIG-fsac-1a35084

[chernobog13]

Green Lama #5 (May, 1945).  Cover by Mac Raboy.

The Green Lama was a character that originally appeared in the pulp magazine Double Detective in 1940.  He made 14 appearances in that magazine, while concurrently appearing in Prize Comics.  In 1943 he gained his own self-titled comic book, along with more superhero-type abilities and costume.  The book lasted for 8 issues, published by his creator and writer, Kendall Foster Crossen.

Despite some misinformation on the Interwebs, the Green Lama is NOT in the public domain.  Crossen kept the copyright to the character, which is maintained by his family.

By the way, I speak from personal experience when I say there’s no way that G.I. on the Green Lama’s back could possibly hold and fire a .50 cal machine gun as depicted.  Not unless he was superhuman as well (he’s NOT the Lieutenant Hercules listed on the cover).

First of all, holding the barrel while firing is a great way to lose your hand.  I’m not talking burn, I’m talking incineration.  Those barrels get hot real quick!  So much so that gunners are trained to only fire the weapon in 3 shot-bursts, lest the barrel overheat and melt.  I saw my share of barrels turn cherry red due to overzealous gunners.  Once that happens the barrel begins to warp and melt, which could lead to it blowing up in your face if you continue to fire.  That’s why gunners are assigned a spare barrel, which you’re supposed to switch out every so often so you don’t overheat/damage either barrel.

Second, those weapons are HEAVY.  The fully-assembled weapon, including the tripod, weighs over 120 pounds!  Add to that the massive kick you get from every banana-sized round fired, and you’d have to be Superman (or at least Housman) to hold it like the guy on the cover.

Or maybe I’m just making too much of a comic book cover.

[attactica]

Testing the RM338: The 50 CAL Replacement with Unbelievably Light Recoil

[toaster-boi]

no idea why i do this but in conventional first-person shooters (mostly Battlefield) i always just try to immediately unlock all the sidearms locked behind stringent requirements but never go for the actual primary weapons.

this results in me running around with a Desert Eagle, the rarest sidearm in Battlefield 4, despite not having a fucking M16 yet

[primarining]

I'm anti war but god machines of war are so cool keeps designing them

[askammoknights]

Don't tell anyone this. I mean ANYONE. I may have used illegal weaponry in Turf Wars... And I got away with it. What is the weapon you may ask? Simple. It's a gun that shoots molten ink. Did I hurt anyone in the process? Yes, but did they recover mentally? Well... maybe. Short story, I am one to be feared on the battlefield. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sheldon sighs, putting a hand to his forehead.

"I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of my philosophy on weapons, especially if you think I'd be impressed by something like this. Technically, sure, it's great! Probably good for an actual war! But...there's a reason I specifically only deal weapons for the Turf War sport."

"I love everything that goes into weaponsmithing. The craftsmanship, the engineering, all the science behind getting ink and other stuff moving as fast as possible, or making as big a boom as you can manage! But my grandpappy always said a weapon is how you use it. I'm well aware anything I sell could potentially be used for evil. To really hurt people. And it might seem ridiculous, but...that's actually the last thing I want. And it's the last thing he would've wanted, either."

"This? You didn't do this to win a competition, you did this because you wanted to scare and hurt people, and you're proud of it. What you did was a disgrace to the sport, to myself, and any other reputable Turf War vendor and participant. I'm disappointed. You should be banned."

"I'm not going to tell the TWA what you did. But I will be telling them to put you under review. I'm giving you one chance to realize what you did, why that was wrong, and to move on from it, do things better."