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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it isn't banned by the geneva convention at all. it's just discouraged by the policies of european nations because of the inhuman mess it creates out of a torso if it happens to detonate internally. and more specifically that's only the Raufoss Mk.211 Mod 0 ammo type.