Reply #45: The military is using the 50BMG as a sniper rifle

[RamboLiberal]

Major success followed in 1990, when the US Military purchased significant numbers of the M82A1 during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq. About 125 rifles were initially bought by the US Marine Corps, and orders from US Army and Air Force soon followed. The M82A1 is known by the US Military as the SASR — "Special Applications Scoped Rifle",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M82_Barrett_rifle

And IMHO the Assault Weapons Ban was a stupid, stupid law!