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Video: Vickers Belt-Fed Machine Gun

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American Rifleman Staff

posted on March 22, 2016

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Watch this "I Have This Old Gun" segment from a recent episode of American Rifleman TV as editors discuss the history of and fire the Vickers Belt-Fed Machine Gun.

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