Yes you should be able to pick it up. If you're on a pc it's should be the 'F' button.
Normally you should be able to see it on the screen if you walk onto a machine gun, you'll get a text saying something along the lines of "press "key" to swith to ...gun. You'll loose another gun though!
Thank @m, but I knew it!
I meant that I want to know how to pick up a MG42 (not MP41, I'm wrong), the big machine gun that place in a fixed position. All the Spy, GB, Sniper can use it, but can we pick up it?
That machine gun appeared in mission 2(Betrayal), 3(A traytor?), 6, ...
Sorry about my Grammar. May be it's wrong somewhere...
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This person used an all weapons cheat that is not working in the retail version of the game. The game developers used a modified executable which allowed them to do so.