The Gun That Took Out Bin Laden?

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So I asked this question shortly after the Seals took out that POS...and in the current Shooting Illustrated there is an entire article about the HK416 and the civilian variant now available the MR556A1. One question they don't answer is what ammo was most likely used. Anyone care to guess M855 maybe?

Also anyone that answers with "who cares hes dead what does it matter"
Please just continue riding on your high horse to the next thread....:)

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HK huh? Go figure, and dang that thing has a piston too! I wonder why they aren't running BCM!?:)

You're probably correct with the M855 assertion.
 
One question they don't answer is what ammo was most likely used. Anyone care to guess M855 maybe?
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The SEALs that took him out might not know, nor care other than in a mildly curious way. When I was serving, I shot what they issued to me and except for making sure that the caliber was correct, I really didn't explore it any deeper than that. Yeah, I'd say that M855 is probably a good guess. Is that what they're issuing these days?
 
Perhaps I misread (several dozen times) that he was actually killed with a handgun... a P226, to be exact. Since when was it a rifle?
 
So did the Pentagon finally disclose the type of weapon used or is this just another marketing ploy to sell magazines?
 
Chances are it was whatever the team was issued for that mission. What actually killed the SOB is something that may get declassified someday, but until then we can only guess. Whatever it was, he saw it coming and felt the heat for the longest "split second" of his miserable life.
 
This thread has lock written all over it...

That being said it is probably (like 99.9%) likely that they used just a plain ole M4 and not the 416.

Does anyone actually take the BS in gun rag's seriously anymore?? That article was probably just one long paid advertisement for HK's rifle.
And they get away with it because there is no way to disprove it.
 
i watched a show about it on either the history channel or discovery channel (cant remember which) and it did say they use the 416 i dont see why they would make that up
 
FWIW, one of the listed "users" for the HK416 is the NSWDG (or ST6) which would indicate that is indeed used by them, so it's certainly possible that it was used that fateful night...

Special operations forces, including "tier one" units such as the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEAL Development Group - or SEAL Team Six - have used their own funds to purchase the Heckler & Koch-built 416, which uses a gas-piston operating system less susceptible to failure than Colt's gas-operated design.
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For the full article:

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,133962,00.html


I get the impression that the Special Ops guys- at least- are not quite as enamored with the decades old DI system of the M4 platform.
 
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ok I'm going to shout this as loud as I can since I'm on a really high horse.
I am in the military and I work with the highest level of classification availible to DOD personell and I will say that not one of the briefs I read listed the weapon used to kill bin laden. the only way you'll ever know is to ask the seal that pulled the trigger and if he has half a brain, he will never let it be known that it was him that did it. M11s, M1911s, M9s, HK416, MP7s, M4s, MP5s, all of these guns were PROBABLY carried by at least one member of the strike team that took him out. every manufacturer that has sold even a single weapon to a SEAL unit can CLAIM that their weapon was used to kill Bin Laden but there is no way anyone who wasn't there will ever know.

it's marketing pure and simple.

EDIT: the HK556 has been availible to civilians for years, this is just H&K trying trying to sell more guns.
 
Also anyone that answers with "who cares hes dead what does it matter"
Please just continue riding on your high horse to the next thread....
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Attitudes like this is what took 10 years to find the most wanted man on the Earth. Working with others works much better, reguardless of YOUR opinion or what weapon was used.

Jim
 
Let's see...

The 416 probably didn't take out bin Laden, but apparently a bullet did that may have been fired from a 416.
The bullet could have been an M855, or M855A1 or any other models for other calibers and weapons noted tahunau001.

So really, who cares? The gun was reportedly fired at extremely close range and so was within the capabilities of all sorts of guns.

I find it very interesting that with all the time it took to get the good guys in the house and all the noises they made in the process that so many guns were available in the house and so few people reportedly were armed with them.
 
"Someone" knows what they were carrying that night and I've not seen anything from HK on this subject. Just a lot of media reporting this was the case.
 
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HK huh? Go figure, and dang that thing has a piston too! I wonder why they aren't running BCM!?
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Go fill the gas tube of the BCM with water and then pull the trigger before it has drained completely and you'll have part of the answer. The SEALs are a maritime unit after all.
 
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