Armas de fuego Serbu

En 2013, Serbu se negó a vender sus rifles semiautomáticos BFG-50A calibre .50 al Departamento de Policía de la Ciudad de Nueva York tras la aprobación de la Ley NY SAFE , que clasificó su arma como arma de asalto . Casos como este, en los que un fabricante de armas de fuego se niega a suministrar a entidades estatales armas prohibidas para sus ciudadanos, se han vuelto más comunes. Tras su negativa a vender los rifles, Serbu mandó imprimir camisetas con una imagen del clásico personaje de Seinfeld , The Soup Nazi , interpretado por el actor Larry Thomas , y las palabras "No Serbu For You" (No hay Serbu para ti). Thomas, defensor del control de armas que no había autorizado el uso de su imagen, contactó a Facebook y a la imprenta de camisetas para que las retiraran. Desde entonces, Serbu ha retirado la imagen de Thomas y la ha sustituido por una de Mark Serbu. ^{[ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]}

On April 9, 2021, firearms YouTuber Scott DeShields Jr., known for his channel Kentucky Ballistics, suffered critical injuries while recording a video shooting the model RN-50 rifle using old .50 BMG SLAP rounds. The gun exploded as DeShields fired the last round, sending shrapnel into his face and torso, lacerating his jugular vein, breaking his nose and puncturing his right lung. He went through extensive emergency surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and was discharged after eight days, referring to the malfunction as a "freak accident" and blaming it on a faulty cartridge.^[14][15][16] Mark Serbu released a video statement on the incident in his YouTube channel, to "assure people that the RN-50 is a safe gun", saying "It's a terrible thing. I’ve got 10,000 guns out there with my name on them and I don’t want anybody getting hurt with them".^[17][18] DeShields later recreated the accident with a remotely-fired RN-50, and found that other rounds from the same batch were also loaded to excessive pressure.^[19]