Machine gun/Talk

Describe the new page here. The following was the content of the Machine-guns page, which is improperly pluralized and less descriptive than Machine Gun:

These weapons have changed the tactics of warfare. They are mechanisms for spraying bullets onto an area of ground, enabling one, two or three man teams to provide the same fire power as a whole platoon. The standard weapon of the Wehrmacht was not the rifle but the machine-gun.

• Maxim??

Known patterns of MG: General Purpose Machine Gun/GPMG Squad Assault Weapon/SAW? [Browning 50 caliber]? MG42? [Bren gun] ...others...

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While the Wehrmacht had terrific light machine guns, it still wasn't the standard weapon. --Belltower

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The article says: Many of the M2 .50Cal machine guns are so accurate that they can actually be used to snipe targets at great distances, although the morality of this practice has been questioned.

I'm unqualified to confirm or disconfirm this, but it sounds odd to me. Why would this morality of this practice (in a wartime context, of course, sniping is surely immoral at other times) be questioned? By whom?

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Does anybody know anything about [Hiram Maxim]?? I think he invented the first effective MG but I'm not sure.

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