U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is no longer looking for a new heavyweight sniper/anti-materiel rifle, at least for now. The Extreme Long Range Sniper Rifle (ELR-SR) effort had been seeking ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: .50 caliber sniper rifles have seen incredible proliferation in the twenty-first century. They are used in almost every hot zone around the world, from... Here’s What ...

Then there is the M2 .50-Caliber Machine Gun. John Browning designed the core of this beast in 1918. It entered service soon ...

.50 caliber rifles are among the most powerful weapons civilians can buy in the United States. The anti-armor sniper rifles were designed for military use and can strike a target from more than a mile ...

Three congressional Democrats, including two from Texas, introduced a bill Thursday calling for a ban on private sales of the civilian version of .50-caliber rifles, which the military uses to bring ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two members ...

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will consider today whether to ban the sale of .50-caliber rifles on the grounds that the powerful weapons are a threat to the county's oil refineries, ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Standing next to a large, black .50-caliber rifle at the State House Inn Wednesday, state Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, urged state legislators to ban the firearm so terrorists can't ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Fifty-caliber rifles can accurately pierce half-inch armor from more than a mile away and are as legal as most other firearms. Several lawmakers want them banned, but gun-rights groups ...

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I'm reading through a Guns&Weapons for law enforcement when I see one of those full page book ads has a VHS tape on how to build a home-workshop .50 cal sniper rifle. The thing is by some fella named ...