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A .50 caliber handgun is a handgun firing a bullet measuring approximately 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) in diameter intended with the task of penetration. Historically, many black powder pistols fired bullets with diameters well above a half inch.
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") [13] [14] is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
The Desert Eagle or "Deagle" [4] is a single-action, gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol capable of chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol and famous for other large caliber chamberings. Magnum Research Inc. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle.
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Pages in category ".50 caliber handguns" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Introduced for the Remington Navy single-shot, rolling block pistol in 1865, the low-velocity round loaded a 290 gr (19 g; 0.66 oz) bullet over 23 gr (1.5 g; 0.053 oz) of black powder. [ 1 ] The rimfire version was replaced in 1866 by a centerfire equivalent.
The pistol is fed from an 8-round single-stack magazine, located within the bakelite paneled grip. Small fixed sights are located on top of the slide. The pistol functions via the blowback principle - gas pressure from burning powder simultaneously forces the cartridge case and slide backward and forces the bullet forward in the barrel.
The Triple Action Thunder is a breech-loading, single shot handgun designed to fire the .50 BMG cartridge. It was developed by Triple Action LLC, an FFL based in Logan, Utah . It was introduced at the 2004 SHOT Show as a prototype, and never made it out of that stage.