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The Barrett Firearms Company was founded in 1980 by Ronnie Barrett. The company's main product is the Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
In 1982, a 20-year-old named Ronnie Barrett took a dare from a local gun maker: to invent a . ...
The Barrett M82A1 is a heavy sniper rifle currently used by many units and armies around the world, including the American Special Forces. ...
A U.S. Army soldier peers through a scope mounted atop his M-21 rifle during operations in Iraq A sniper rifle is a somewhat vague class of rifle used for sniping, but it can be defined as a rifle used for selective destruction of specific small targets from a...
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Barrett introduced the M82 in 1982 but did not make any significant sales until 1989 to Sweden. Soon afterwards, the enormously powerful rifle attracted the attention of the US military, and it was deployed in the Gulf War. Today the company has contracts with dozens of countries to supply sniper rifles. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Combatants U.S.-led coalition Iraq Commanders General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell Saddam Hussein Strength Casualties The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United...
The success of the M82A1 has led the company to develop several other models of .50 caliber rifles, including the M95, M99, and M99-1. These are lighter bolt-action rifles, which are somewhat less advanced but more affordable to civilians and law enforcement agencies.
In current military use, the M82A1 is designated as the M107, and is labeled as an anti-material rifle. While the M107 is highly effective against soft targets, and is also used by explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams with special military high explosive incinderary bullets, its large recoil and heavy weight make it somewhat less effective in use against individuals.
The M82A1 has been purchased by over 40 militaries worldwide. It became legendary in the first Gulf War for disabling Iraqi armored personnel carriers from a mile away. Fighters in the Bosnian army used just one .50 caliber rifle to great effect in fending off Serb forces in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War of the early 1990s. Florin Krasniqi and his associates acquired dozens of the rifles in the late '90s. They found that they afforded a psychological advantage, once the Serbs and the international press discovered that the Kosovo Liberation Army forces were armed with Barretts. Combatants U.S.-led coalition Iraq Commanders General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell Saddam Hussein Strength Casualties The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United...
East German BRDMs on parade during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of East Germany in 1989 Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are light armoured fighting vehicles for the transport of infantry. ...
Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...
Srebrenica (Serbian: Сребреница) is a town in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its Republika Srpska entity. ...
Bosnian War (also: War in Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a common name for an international conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 6, 1992 to September 14, 1995. ...
Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës. ...
Barrett Firearms currently working on two projects for the military. One is the M468 upper receiver for the AR-15/M16/M4 platform, chambered in the 6.8mm Remington SPC round. This provides more punch than the 5.56mm NATO standard round used in most current U.S. issue assault rifles. Early testing among special forces units has met with approval. The second new product is the XM109. This is essential a conversion of the M107/M82A1 designed to fire a 25mm payload. The 6. ...
Barrett Responds to Criticism Gun control organizations such as the Violence Policy Center have decried the availability of Barrett's rifles to civilians in the United States and have been pushing for states to ban the civilian ownership of .50 BMG rifles. The Violence Policy Center is a Washington, DC based organization that conducts studies that serve their aim of furthering gun control legislation. ...
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It should be noted that no documented crime has been perpetrated with this weapon or any other chambered for the .50 BMG round. A recent road-rage incident in which police seized a .50 caliber weapon turned out to be an antique pistol with a half-inch bore diameter. A pistol round, even one in "fifty caliber" is not nearly as potent as .50 BMG.
They justify banning this calibre of high-powered rifles by claiming that they have no civilian use and are readily avalible to terrorist groups- especially for the purpose of penetrating armoured vehicles. However, the original fully-automatic Browning M2 Machine Gun was abandoned as impractical for this purpose following the Second World War. Rifles in the .50BMG calibre are often used by civilians for very long range target shooting and hunting. An M2 machine gun surrounded by spent shell casings The M2 . ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
In response to the California ban on the civilian ownership of .50 BMG rifles, Barrett Firearms instituted a policy of refusing to sell to or service rifles for any California Law Enforcement Agency. In fact, it is known that the LAPD has several of these rifles in its arsenal. The . ...
The Los Angeles Police Department (usually known as the LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...
Recent programs on 'Dateline' for NBC and 60 Minutes on CBS suggested that the Barrett .50 cal rifle could be used to down an airliner in flight. While designed to disable planes on the ground, military studies have shown it is extremely unlikely that even with a 10 round clip the rifle can hit an airborne plane. Also, with the advent of the autocannon, .50 BMG ammunition is no longer used in anti-aircraft weapons. Dateline is the name of current affairs television shows: Dateline NBC, a United States show on the NBC network. ...
The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
The ticking TAG Heuer stopwatch from 60 Minutes. ...
CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ...
An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft (an aeroplane/airplane) initially designed for the transport of paying passengers, and usually operated by an airline company (which owns or leases the aircraft). ...
M242 Bushmaster autocannon on an M2 Bradley. ...
Products Barret M82A1 The Barrett M82A1 is a heavy sniper rifle currently used by many units and armies around the world, including the American Special Forces. ...
The Barret M95 is a rifle by the Barrett Firearms Company. ...
The XM107 was originally intended to be a bolt-action sniper rifle, and in fact it was selected by the US Army in a competition between such weapons. ...
The Barrett XM109 is a 25 mm sniper rifle still under development by the Barrett Firearms Company. ...
See Also The Violence Policy Center is a Washington, DC based organization that conducts studies that serve their aim of furthering gun control legislation. ...
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