Watch this American Rifleman "At The Range" video segment above to learn about the M60 general-purpose machine gun chambered in 7.62 mm NATO.

The M60 was designed to replace the existing U.S. squad automatics (the 1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle and the air-cooled Browning .30-cal. M1919A6 machine gun), along with the air-cooled ...

M60 Machine Gun Machine Guns The Story of America’s Legendary M60 Machine Gun Here’s What You Need to Know: The M60 has come a long way from its Vietnam-era iteration.

The gun weighed almost ten pounds less than the M1919A6, tipping the scales at around twenty-three pounds. The T161E3 was adopted as the M60 on 30 January 1957.