re: I love the movie "Fury" but...

So much wrong with OP. First of all, not a machine gun. Second of all, not a piece of shite. A lot of GIs wouldn't have survived the war had it gotten into the war earlier and been mass produced.

Also, it heavily influenced the Kalashnikov platform, which is pretty much the most successful infantry weapon of the modern era.

The one great point here was that hauling it around would have been impractical because it fired a cartridge that wouldn't be laying around all over the place. With regards to the movie, a guy like that might have just carried it around with a few mags just to be a bad arse and had a Thompson for his daily driver.