.50 Cal Stupidity

Posted June 3, 2010 in Other Gear & Gadgets by Steve Johnson with 35 Comments
Tags: .50, military

Apparently, and the story appears to be true, a solider tried to fix his machine gun by banging in a pin using a loose .50 BMG round …

Read about it here [ WARNING. VERY GRAPHIC PHOTO ]

UPDATE: Could be a fake. See this comment posted by Molon.

[ Many thanks to jdun1911 for emailing me the link. ]

Steve Johnson

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