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Tippmann ½-scale Browning .50 HB

Section IV: still an NFA firearm, also a curio or relic

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11 · APRIL 2025 EDITION · SECTION IV · VERBATIM · PDF P. 88 ↗

Tippman Arms Company, 1/2 scale, Browning Model .50 HB Machinegun, cal. .22 Winchester Magnum.

INFOATF states no date; production was about 1985–1986.
INFOStill an NFA firearm; only registered examples transfer, with ATF approval (26 U.S.C. 5812, 5861).

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section IV · PDF p. 88 ↗ · ATF original ↗

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Verbatim check

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Editorial facts

Confidence: Medium · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence

References

1. forgottenweapons.com ↗, years (estimate: partly supports it): 'In 1985, he added an M2HB replica, also in half scale, chambered for the .22 Magnum'; he left the business when the registry closed in 1986

Fact tags

ATF the ATF wording states it.
REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.

Source checked

20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition

Corrections

1 change · see below

18 October 2026Evidence passYears: 1983–1987 → 1985–1986. Forgotten Weapons: the half-scale M2HB (.22 Magnum) was added in 1985, and Tippmann sold the business when the registry closed in 1986

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