The Firearm Blog » ar-50 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog Firearms not Politics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Armalite AR-50 .50 BMG vs. Hard Drives http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/03/25/armalite-ar-50-50-bmg-vs-hard-drives/ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/03/25/armalite-ar-50-50-bmg-vs-hard-drives/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:20:52 +0000 Steve http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=5735 I saw this over at Snowflakes in Hell. An armor piercing incendiary .50 BMG round is fired from an Armalite AR-50 rifle at 18 hard drives.

The round passes through 16 and it embedded in the 17th.

]]> http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/03/25/armalite-ar-50-50-bmg-vs-hard-drives/feed/ 7 Custom .50 BMG rifle confiscated from Mexican gang http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/12/04/custom-50-bmg-rifle-confiscated-from-mexican-gang/ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/12/04/custom-50-bmg-rifle-confiscated-from-mexican-gang/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:36:15 +0000 Steve http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/?p=3545 This interesting .50 BMG rifle was discovered on a raid by Mexican police and army:

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My take on the rifle is that it is a McMillian TAC-50 action with an AR-50 barrel and muzzlebreak and a homemade unfinished (no recoil pad) stock.

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McMillian TAC-50

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Armalite AR-50

More photo of the captured weapons at MP.net.

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