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Just because it was unauthorized, doesn’t make it any less awesome

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In response to rough treatment by the locals along Route 19 in South Vietnam, U.S. Army Transport Corps drivers went to uparmor their vehicles to make it from Point A to Point B without having to be medevaced.

At first, this was just sandbags and M60s. Then came M2s, 1/2″ steel plate, and more handheld weapons such as M79 bloop guns.

Then, needing bigger rides to carry more guns, they stepped up from 2.5-ton to 5-ton trucks with everything from surplus M113 hulls and “borrowed” M134 Mini Guns aboard.

How about that M134 on the back to discourage disreputable merchants and ward off road rage at 6,000 rounds-per-minute?

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Forget Minigun, here’s the Microgun

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Sure, you know the M134 Minigun, but how about the hand-held XM556 Microgun that tips the scales at about one-fifth the weight?

The Minigun, which weighs in at about 85 pounds in its traditional format and fires 7.62x51mm NATO about as fast as a fat kid can go through a stack of twinkees, is well-known and loved among those who ain’t got time to bleed. However, Empty Shell LLC of Spring, Texas went all-in on a tiny little variant of the Mingun that they like to call the XM556 Microgun.

And it only weighs 16 pounds, but still rips out green tip at 2,000 rounds per minute.

Let's talk about the 'World's First' hand-held 5.56mm Microgun (VIDEOS)

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