(GunReports.com) — The Soldier Systems blog recently ran through several well-informed guesses on what actual firearm might have fired the fatal shot into the head of OBL, aka UBL. Here’s the latest speculation from them, with earlier guesses in [ ]:
“Actually, a very good most excellent source has it that Osama bin Ladin was brought to justice with a 5.56 weapon.” [The original guess was a 7.62]
“In fact, Soldier Systems was told it was a Colt CM901.” [Well the whole 901 bit turned out to be a bad piece of info, but from a good source, Soldier Systems said.]
“However, UBL was gunned down using German engineering – the HK416 which was my gut feeling from the very beginning. This is confirmed to the point that I feel comfortable updating this story. Ultimately, as my readers have pointed out, it doesn’t matter what got him so long as he is dead.”
Read more here.
