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From:	GMPax@*.com GMPax@*.com
Subject:	black talons
Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:32:16 EST

In a message dated 3/6/99 12:30:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, kdole@***.vsc.edu
writes:

> IMI introduced the .50AE for the Eagle.

Small bit of trivia there: in the US, the ".50AE" you could buy right now is
NOT a .50 caliber weapon. It's a .49 caliber, because some yahoo in the
government decided caliber was a measure of the TOTAL circumference of the
barrel, INCLUDING RIFLING.

Morons.

Sean
GM Pax

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