Machine gun `fun` with ex-SEAL from bin Laden raid

A right-wing political group has invited donors for some "machine gun fun" at a Wyoming shooting range with former Navy SEAL Rob O`Neill, who has claimed credit for killing Osama bin Laden.

Washington: A right-wing political group has invited donors for some "machine gun fun" at a Wyoming shooting range with former Navy SEAL Rob O`Neill, who has claimed credit for killing Osama bin Laden.

The conservative organisation ForAmerica is offering a chance to spend a weekend with O`Neill and shoot guns with the retired commando -- for a fee of $50,000, according to the Washington Post.

"Our event will consist of clay, pistol and `machine gun fun` with shooting competitions with Rob O`Neill," said an invitation to donors, posted by the newspaper.

Participants will stay at the Amangani Resort Hotel in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which the invitation described as offering "picturesque views" of Grand Teton National Park and the Snake River.

The event will include time at the nearby Jackson Hole Shooting Experience, which was touted as "one of the premier shooting facilities in the American West," the invitation said.

O`Neill told media last year that he shot bin Laden in the forehead during the 2011 US military raid on the al Qaeda leader`s compound in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad.

O`Neill, who was the focus of a lengthy Fox News documentary, is the second member of the elite SEAL Team 6 unit involved in the bin Laden raid to go public. 

The move has caused dismay among top brass and the ranks of the SEAL commandos who have a tradition of avoiding any public discussion of their covert missions.

O`Neill`s spokesman told the Post that the former SEAL agreed to the event "as a favor to a friend who has been helping him out."

O`Neill has launched a charity that seeks to help veterans of US special operations forces. 

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