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Your search for the biggest, most bad-ass guns a civilian can own and a single person can wield ends here at 50calibergun.com. The holy grail of many shooting enthusiasts has long been the massive, half-inch diameter bore, .50 caliber gun. .50 caliber guns are the biggest guns available that aren't considered destructive devices by the government and they have a long history of service used by both machine gunners and 50 cal snipers. As the years and technology progressed the .50 cal has always been at the top tier of both guns and ammo. .50 cals have been made popular in TV, Movies, and Video Games with the 50 cal Barrett® rifles as well as the famous Desert Eagle®. The family of .50 cal guns covers rifles, revolvers and handguns, leaving almost no aspect of shooting left unturned. While Barrett® and Desert Eagle® have made us love .50 caliber guns, the real stars of the show are the .50 caliber bullets. Lets meet the family:

	.50 AE After the widespread popularity of smokeless powder, .50 caliber bore handguns fell out of favor. It wasn't until 1988 that Evan Whildin of Action Arms® developed the .50 caliber Action Express as an improvement over the ballistics of the .44 Remington Magnum that .50 cal handguns regained popularity. The first handgun to be designed to handle the new hand held .50 cal round was the legendary Desert Eagle® .50 cal from Magnum Research®. The action of a Desert Eagle® works similar to the gas system of an M-16 or Mini-14 just to handle the monstrous recoil of a .50 cal bullet. Desert Eagle® brought the .50 cal bullet a long way and into the hearts and minds of .50 cal enthusiasts everywhere by making .50 cal bullets accessible to auto-loading handguns instead of man-sized rifles. And just because the .50 AE fits in an auto-loader, don't be fooled, it, like all .50 caliber rounds, are not for the novice shooter.
	.50 BMG Not the first, but definitely the most popular .50 caliber round, the .50 BMG has been in service for almost 100 years. The BMG tag of the .50 BMG bullet stands for Browning Machine Gun. In the lat 1910's firearms legend John Browning, at the time working for FN de Herstal®, developed a new machine gun to engage both personnel and materiel targets. What Browning came up with was a massively scaled up version of a .30-06 cartridge. After Carlos Hathchock set the previous distance record for a sniper kill with an M2 Browning Machine Gun with a telescopic scope, rifles had begun to be purpose built to accept the giant .50 BMG Cartridge. Preferred for it's accuracy over extreme distances, the most famous manufacturer of .50 BMG rifles, Barrett® began designing semi-automatic rifles in .50 BMG caliber for both civilians and military in 1982. Capable of firing accurately at over 2,500 yards, .50 cal Barretts® and the .50 BMG round is a favorite of long range target shooters.
	.500 S&W One of the newest additions to the .50 cal family and the world's most powerful handgun round is the .500 S&W Magnum. First made in 2003, there are only a select few revolvers tough enough to load this kind of .50 cal handgun rounds the first of which was obviously the “X-Frame” Smith & Wesson® Model 500 revolver. The .500 S&W practically big enough to be a rifle round and has enough power to take down an African Elephant. This .50 cal is so powerful it has been known to cause eye and ear damage when firing. Revolvers for the .500 S&W are only 5-shots as they need thicker cylinder walls to handle the massive pressure produced by such an awesome .50 caliber cartridge.