MA5B Assault Rifle

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For those born without a sense of humour, Halopedia has an article on MA5B Assault Rifle.

This article is too damned short, Marine! You will help Gruntipedia by making it larger so it will fit the screen, fool!

How is this an assault weapon when you can't kill anything with it?!

— Some noob

It does NOTHING!!!

— Some noob

Why do we get this small SMG and Masta Chief gets that huge ass gun?

— A whiny marine

When the Chief uses this, he never seems to run out of ammo.

— Random marine

Getting rid of this piece of shit in favour of the new model may be the best choice the UNSC has made since starting the SPARTAN program.

— Analytical gamer/grateful marine

The MA5B Assault Rifle is that stupid weapon you use in every mission in Halo: Combat Evolved (except for that one where you rescue that computer chick), and Humans are the only ones who use this weapon. It makes a distinct rat-a-tat sound when fired which attracts testicle chins and other creepy things who end up getting killed by it. The MA5C is the new assault rifle in Halo 3 which includes a wimpy sound that can annoy you to death compared to its predecessor. The noobs get almost as scared of this as they do SMGs.It is also Pedo brute weapon of choice mainly because of teh assault

The assault rifle is called the rat-a-tat because of how it is powered. The clip contains 60 salt cubes and 60 tiny rats. When you fire, a salt cube goes into the rat's mouth. Then the rat spits it out, and the process repeats until all salt cubes are gone. The rats also can only spit one cube because the salt cube damages their tongue.

This is also why some people call the Assault Rifle "A Salt Rifle."

While the UNSC was low on funds they decide to decrease the amount of ammo it could use because Masta Chief kept going at it even if the enemy was already dead. He enjoyed using it so much that after nightfall he used to shoot just to look at the numbers decrease. To compensate, they made it act like a fucking assault rifle instead of a mixed shotgun/auto-peashooter.

The digital arrow just above the ammo number is designed to point toward the nearest hacker. This is very useful for when you want to use a scarab gun, or when you want to try on different skins.