Has a .50 BMG handgun ever been made?

[Harry Tuttle]

heres birdmans rig:


he had a funny photoshop of a lady shooting it and loosing her limbs

 

[BluesBear]

Contradictions

Well then under 18USC921(a)(17)(B)(i) the Barnes X-bullets should be considered armor piercing.


ANY cartridge COULD be fired in some sort of handgun.


And no the two revolvers Stevie-Ray posted are NOT Pfeifer-Zeliska revolvers.
The P-F is much smaller and it has a prawl on the grip. The mystery 50 revolver is much bigger and has a standard plowhandle grip.
The P-F is actually able to be held in one hand AND fired.

 

[tim71]

You can tell that .600 nitro is much smaller. Also, if you notice on the mystery 50 the pic is dated 93 in the lower right corner. I'd like to have one of those just as a conversation piece if nothing else. Also, immagine if you showed up at the indoor firing range with that!

Tim

 

[Southern Raider]

Well then under 18USC921(a)(17)(B)(i) the Barnes X-bullets should be considered armor piercing.


ANY cartridge COULD be fired in some sort of handgun.

Yes, but the Barnes stuff is bullets. It wouldn't become legally AP until loaded into a recognized handgun cartridge. FWIW, the Thompson Center chamberings don't seem to qualify, for some reason. The ATF only seems to take notice when a real pistol is made, like the AR15 pistols in 7.62x39.

It's their system, it doesn't have to make sense to us.

 

[pezo]

I apologize for my lack of knowledge on the .600 nitro express but were those rounds going for like $100 a shell, or was it the .700 nitro? hmmm

 

[InfernoMDM]

Are 50 BMG's illegal to manufacture?

 

[BluesBear]

It's their system, it doesn't have to make sense to us.

AMEN to that!

The Barnes ARE loaded in handgun ammo. The Taurus .45 ammo is an example and there's another company doing it but their name escapes me right now.

 

[Southern Raider]

The Barnes ARE loaded in handgun ammo. The Taurus .45 ammo is an example and there's another company doing it but their name escapes me right now.

Ahhh...You'll notice that the Taurus ammo is always found in HP. If it were made FMJ/TMJ, it would be AP ammo no question. Although the HP configuration fulfills the legal description of AP, I think the ATF was wise enough to notice that it would never penetrate anything remotely armored and thus exempted it. Either that, or they consider the core to be made from air...

 

[BluesBear]

Brilliant

Either that, or they consider the core to be made from air...

Now that is a brilliant example of bureaucratic logic.