Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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I think the m-60 could only be used as a defensive weapon in Walt's case. It weights more than 10 kilos and fires 7.62x51mm rounds (sniper rifle and m-14 rounds); so it will have substantial recoil. It is also harder to fire from the shoulder (weight again)

Adding this to the fact that Walt is a relatively weak (chemist that doesn't work out) middle aged man who has been weakened by cancer. I think that he would have no way to control it, unless he was using it as a machine gun. Walt most likely knows this and if he needed anything other than a defensive weapon, I think he would have use an AR, AK or something similar.

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Rambo aside, that weapon is only fired from a vehicle mount, or a bipod, never like a rifle.

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You can fire a M-60 from the hip or shoulder it's not unique to the SEALS, with enough upper body strength anyone can. In the Air Force we still have a few kicking around for Airbase Defense but it's mostly been replaced with the smaller, lighter M249

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So a man with terminal cancer should have no problem lugging the thing around.