Video: Vickers Belt-Fed Machine Gun

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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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