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The Firepower that Brought Down bin Laden: This Gun?

Elisabeth Meinecke | May 12, 2011 11:31 AM

Conservative author Brad Thor (cooler than a Hollywood movie -- you can read a profile of him in the May issue of Townhall Magazine) tweeted a link to this post from Military Times on the gun that probably brought Osama bin Laden down. The author's sourcing seems pretty good, considering the sensitive nature of the operation: "a SOCOM vet with enough clout to have earned a Photoshopped place in the Situation Room photo behind Hillary’s empty seat."

The author said he has three sources that all pointed to this gun -- the HK416 -- being used.

the HK416, via the Military Times post:

The Firepower that Brought Down bin Laden: This Gun?

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