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vluft on Sept 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot wor...

funnily enough, a 20mm anti-tank rifle _was_ used in a crime back in 1965, to bust open a vault at a Brinks facility.

jaclaz on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

It was also functional to the plot of the movie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_and_Lightfoot

very likely the 1965 Brinks vault robbery inspired the screenplay, but in the movie it was an anti-aircraft 20 mm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon

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