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Here’s What You Need to Know: Massive stopping power and a bullet-proof design keeps “Ma Deuce” in the fight. The venerable M2 Browning machine gun was first developed during World War I. The Great ...

Before the Browning M2, there was a series of Colt commercial .50 caliber machine guns. The .50 BMG (12.7x99mm) cartridge began development in 1918, and after the end of the war Colt and John Browning ...