30-day free trial and free audiobook here: http://www.audible.com/ratedrr Handheld M2 .50 Cal Machine Gun Click here to subscribe: http://goo.gl/mZDvQ Keep up with me and the projects I'm working on: Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/RichardRyan Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/RichardRyan Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/RichardRyan If you're interested in most of the shirts I wear... You can find them here: http://www.endoapparel.com The M2 Machine Gun or Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun, currently manufactured by US Ordnance, is a heavy machine gun designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. It is very similar in design to Browning's earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge. The M2 uses the much larger and much more powerful .50 BMG cartridge, which was developed alongside and takes its name from the gun itself (BMG standing for Browning Machine Gun). The M2 has been referred to as "Ma Deuce", as a GI phonetic slang or "the fifty" in reference to its caliber. The design has had many specific designations; the official designation for the current infantry type is Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2, HB, Flexible. It is effective against infantry, unarmored or lightly armored vehicles and boats, light fortifications and low-flying aircraft. The M2 has had the longest continuous service for a machine gun in the world.

• published: 28 Oct 2013
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