I just found out that using a .50 cal machine gun against people is technically banned by the Geneva Convention, as the .50 is supposed to be used against Vehicles and Materiel only. Why is this? If you are a soldier shooting at another soldier, the objective is to kill them. Wouldn't you use the most potent weapons systems to accomplish this?
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Fun Fact: General procedure to get around that is to say that you were aiming for the enemy's weapon(which is Material, so fair game). You "missed" and hit the soldier instead. Oops.