Dirty Harry is now outgunned: Smith & Wesson has introduced its biggest handgun ever, a .50-caliber Magnum. The five-shot revolver with an 8 1/2-inch barrel weighs about 4 1/2 pounds _ roughly a pound ...

The Army currently operates 24,000 standard M2 machine guns and roughly 25,000 upgraded M2A1 .50-cal weapons designed with a number of improved features. The improved M2A1 is, among other things, ...

The Army is creating a new, lightweight version of its iconic .50-cal machine gun designed to better enable soldiers to destroy enemies, protect convoys, mount weapons on vehicles, attack targets on ...

The Army owns what’s called the Technical Data Package, or TDP, for the new lightweight .50-cal; vendors will have to “build to print” and execute the government’s existing specs, Battista explained.

Isnt this just -slightly- overkill for a pistol ?<BR><BR>http://popularmechanics.com/outdoors/firearms/2003/9/top_gun/<BR><BR><BR>my wrists ache just reading the ...