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Rock Island Armory M60 General Purpose
Machine Gun, Class III/NFA Fully Transferable
Machine Gun, with Accessories - Serial no. 10309,
7.62 cal., 22 inch round bbl., matte black phosphate
finish, synthetic stock. Developed in the late 1950s, the
M60 was designed as a general-purpose machine gun (GPMG), a
single weapon to replace as many different .30 caliber machine
guns in the Army inventory as possible. The M60 was deployed as
the chief infantry machine gun for Vietnam, along with a variety
of air, ground, and water vehicle mountings. While other designs
started to fill the infantry niche from the 80s onward, the M60 is
still a frontline automatic weapon with American and allied armed
forces. This example is built around a receiver made by Rock
Island Armory (located near, but not connected to, the Rock Island
Arsenal). The barrel is equipped with a fixed blade front sight,
elongated bird cage flash hider, and swiveling bipod.