You know, they said the same thing about Stallone when First Blood came out. "If anyone were to fire REAL ammo through an M60, it'd sit him on his keester..." Blah, blah, blah. And bull caca. The gun weighs enough to counter the recoil. We had one at the range I worked at and it was indeed fired one handed by one of the range masters. Accuracy was ridiculous, yes, but he withstood the recoil just fine. He said it was harder to hold the gun than to fire it. Jesse Ventura was carrying something like 150 pounds in gun, pack, generator, etc...that wasn't going to go anywhere from the recoil of a .223, which is what they used. And that model was a field modified minigun originally slated for Navy use by SEAL teams. Don't know if it ever saw action that way, but that was the idea. You can clearly see that when he is firing it, he's having to fight the rotary force of the spinning barrels to keep it "on target" but otherwise there is little recail to worry about. Also, for you film buffs, movie blanks use TWICE the gunpowder of real ammo, so the boom is much bigger. They do it for the greater muzzle flash on camera.