Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Gun That Killed Bin Laden Revealed...(HK416-5.56)
USNews ^ | 05/11/2011 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 05/12/2011 9:45:32 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP

Sources say the HK416 rifle was used to kill bin Laden. The biggest secret in the special operations community—what gun did SEALs from "DevGru" kill Osama bin Laden with—has been revealed. Two military gear blogs, citing multiple insider sources, credit the highly reliable HK416 rifle, an M-16 type weapon, with the "double tap" of 5.56 mm bullets to bin Laden's head.

While the military isn't talking about what SEALs from United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, formerly SEAL Team Six, carried in, two sites—Military Times Gear Scout and Soldier Systems—said the gun used was the German made, Delta Force designed Heckler & Koch rifle used by several militaries.

"I've just heard from a SOCOM vet," says Military Times "He tells me the stack of SEAL assaulters from Red team that went through Osama bin Laden's bedroom door were running HK416s."

Soldier Systems adds that bin Laden "was gunned down using German engineering – the HK416 which was my gut feeling from the very beginning."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; operationgeronimo
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-122 next last
To: Miss Behave

Daddy has............

61 posted on 05/12/2011 10:46:07 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like Everyone Else.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Mommy wants daddy. ;-)


62 posted on 05/12/2011 10:50:40 AM PDT by Miss Behave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: ryan71; waterhill; ixtl
NOT GUILTY!

LoL! and (((ping)))

63 posted on 05/12/2011 10:52:02 AM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: databoss
I'll call my buddy at GemTech and see if they make any suppressors for the .458 monster.
I cant get to their website from work due to a firewall.▼
64 posted on 05/12/2011 10:54:56 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: GonzoGOP

“Sounds like a good bit of Osama’s noggin isn’t in the Ocean but decorating a wall in Pakistan. “

Which may be why a fire was started. No “relics,” for his followers.

“Look Achmed! Look! I have The Great One’s nose in my holy fruit jar!”


65 posted on 05/12/2011 10:56:01 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: ßuddaßudd
. she’s pretty . . . ‡... yea, pretty deadly!

Mike

66 posted on 05/12/2011 10:56:05 AM PDT by MichaelP (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Perdogg
The M-14 is way too powerful that close.

But what a beautiful weapon.

67 posted on 05/12/2011 10:58:03 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

Doesn’t require a burst.
Double taps are, technically, one aimed shot with a quick follow-up made without reacquiring the same sight picture. Semi-auto is used.

As opposed to a “controlled pair”, with the second shot also made using aimed fire.


68 posted on 05/12/2011 11:00:29 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

You’ve got a real beauty there, back before everything was all licensed out to knock-off manufacturers. Good deal.


69 posted on 05/12/2011 11:01:28 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

LOL!!


70 posted on 05/12/2011 11:01:54 AM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

Nope.
both use a gas-piston system.

It’s the bolt LOCKUP that’s different.
HK uses a roller bolt in the HK-9x series, while the HK-416 uses the standard rotating bolt lockup.


71 posted on 05/12/2011 11:02:50 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The particular gun will hopefully be in a display case somewhere for people to admire.


72 posted on 05/12/2011 11:03:40 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Those who endured Valley Forge didn't act to give us free health care)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Que?
Piston operated systems vent all gases outside the receiver. Nothing goes near the cartridge or chamber. The gas moves a piston which connects to an op-rod that pushes the bolt.


73 posted on 05/12/2011 11:06:13 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

Wha?


74 posted on 05/12/2011 11:07:33 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Yosemitest
That was a helpful post. May explain why my Mini 14 is so inaccurate firing .223 Rem. Plus or minus three inches at a hundred yards is not a good thing. My sks can reliably hit a tennis ball at the same range... the mini... sometimes.
75 posted on 05/12/2011 11:08:48 AM PDT by mmercier
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: bmwcyle
All but Obama and some in Congress admit they are Communist. What is to investigate what is right before your nose?

Sad but true. So now what? Guess reality is we wait until November 6, 2012.

76 posted on 05/12/2011 11:10:18 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: USMCPOP

I don’t think I have ever seen a thread on FR where so many people think they are experts but clearly don’t know what they are talking about.


77 posted on 05/12/2011 11:10:54 AM PDT by yarddog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP
The G3/HK91 is roller-locked delayed-blowback recoil operated.

the chamber flutes only help in extraction by mitigating some of the obturation of the case aginst the chamber wall. all of the recoil energy has been transmitted to the bolt before any gas reaches the chamber flutes.

Anyway, in the G3/HK91, the chamber flutes do not extend all the way to the mouth of the chamber, so there is no pathway for the gas to reach the bolthead unntil the case is extracted from the chamber.

78 posted on 05/12/2011 11:11:23 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (I'm sick of damn idiots)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: bodfish
Okay, point taken. You may be right.

So then, instead of the HK416 being the "Really Cool Gun that killed Bin Laden" it will be the "Really Cool Gun that DIDN'T kill Bin Laden".

Either way, it's still a Really Cool Gun!

;-)

79 posted on 05/12/2011 11:11:47 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

I want one.


80 posted on 05/12/2011 11:13:23 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-122 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson