When I was 14 in 1965 a gov inspector where my dad worked [my father designed guns and vehicles for the military] borrowed from work, a belt fed machine gun that said "Colt" on the side.

With the adults and other teen agers, I shot up an old model A ford and a toilet under the power lines. Every 5th round was a tracer.

50 years later I realized that was an M60.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps