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This story kind of writes itself. Nice photos in the article, too.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/tribunist.com\/military\/special-forces-sniper-obliterates-isis-commander-from-1-5-miles-away-using-40-year-old-machine-gun\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:<\/p>\n The Browning .50 Machine Gun is an ancient and well respected workhorse for allied troops. Some variation of the old M2 has been in service since its inception before World War II. The gun is most often thought of as a sledgehammer of sorts, not a instrument capable of finesse. Yet a British sniper just knocked down a jihadi from 1.5 miles out with a single shot from an M2.<\/p>\n The British sniper killed an Islamic State commander with a shot to the chest. \u201cThis feat is believed to be the first time the machine gun has been used for a sniper hit by the SAS,\u201d\u00a0The Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0writes.<\/p>\n It appears that the shot both stunned and frightened the Isisers at the location of the target because they got up and ran away. The machine gun has now been decommissioned and will be on display in the unit\u2019s Hereford headquarters.<\/p>\n As a small piece of information, in \u201cThe Public Enemy\u201d, one of Jimmy Cagney\u2019s best-known movies, in the scene in which Cagney ducks into an alley, a Navy machine gunner stitches a precise line of bullets up the alley corner of that building.<\/p>\n I assume that a Browning machine gun would not be appropriate for use in hunting geese, but might it have some place in shooting Asian carp when they jump out of water they\u2019ve invaded?<\/p>\n I know, I know: that’s not a machine gun at the top, but there are photos of them in the article for you Gunnutz.<\/p>\n Hat tip to GDContractor for the link to the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story kind of writes itself. Nice photos in the article, too. https:\/\/tribunist.com\/military\/special-forces-sniper-obliterates-isis-commander-from-1-5-miles-away-using-40-year-old-machine-gun\/ From the article: … Machine Gunner Hits ISIS Target From 1.5 Mile Away<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,307,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-isis","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}