Vickers commercial water-cooled machinegun
Official wording
Vickers commercial water-cooled machinegun, any configuration, any cal., British manufacture.
What this entry requires
- ATF REQUIRESMade or imported as stated: “British manufacture”
- INFOATF states no date; production was about 1912–1960.
- INFOStill an NFA firearm; only registered examples transfer, with ATF approval (26 U.S.C. 5812, 5861).
Editorial facts · Our research
- Country
United KingdomBasis: the ATF wording - Manufacturer
- VickersBasis: outside reference ²
- Type
- MachinegunBasis: the ATF wording
- Action
- Select-fire / autoBasis: the ATF wording
- Caliber
- All calibersBasis: the ATF wording
- Made
- c. 1912–1960production; ATF states no dateBasis: outside reference ¹
- Service
- Commercial
Source
- Official wording
- ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section IV · PDF p. 89 ↗ · ATF original ↗
- Entries
- 1 line
- Verbatim check
- Checked against the PDF text before every release
- Editorial facts
- Confidence: Medium · Last revised 17 October 2026 (Data-trust review) · How we rate confidence
- References
- 1. Wikipedia, “Vickers machine gun” ↗, years: adopted by the British Army 1912; widely sold commercially in many calibres
- 2. Wikipedia, “Vickers machine gun” ↗, maker: Vickers
- 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
Correction history
- Data-trust reviewEditorial confidence: Low → Medium. Re-rated after supporting references were added or re-checked.
Historical context
Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Vickers Machine Gun YORCM CA78ac (cropped).jpg”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved October 2026.
Summary: Wikipedia, “Vickers machine gun”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew, but typically required more men to move and operate it: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the others helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and spare parts. It was in service from before the First World War until the 1960s, with air-cooled versions of it on many Allied World War I fighter aircraft.