For only $315, you, too, can kill Osama bin Laden

Wish you could have been a part of the SEAL Team 6 raid that killed Osama bin Laden? Now’s your chance. Former SEAL Larry Yatch has reconstructed the Abbottabad complex in a 10,000-square-foot studio in New Hope, Minnesota and for $315 a pop you can unload your M16-style paintball gun on a guy dressed like ...

By , Africa editor at Foreign Policy from 2015-2018.
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Wish you could have been a part of the SEAL Team 6 raid that killed Osama bin Laden? Now's your chance. Former SEAL Larry Yatch has reconstructed the Abbottabad complex in a 10,000-square-foot studio in New Hope, Minnesota and for $315 a pop you can unload your M16-style paintball gun on a guy dressed like OBL. It's not quite Abottabad, but it should still get your chest thumping.

Wish you could have been a part of the SEAL Team 6 raid that killed Osama bin Laden? Now’s your chance. Former SEAL Larry Yatch has reconstructed the Abbottabad complex in a 10,000-square-foot studio in New Hope, Minnesota and for $315 a pop you can unload your M16-style paintball gun on a guy dressed like OBL. It’s not quite Abottabad, but it should still get your chest thumping.

So far, participants seem pleased with the experience. "This is so cool! My adrenaline is, like, so spiked right now!" reported one role player who spoke to KSTP, the local ESPN affiliate.

But cheap thrills are not the only thing Yatch is peddling. Sealed Mindset Firearms Studio, Yatch’s business venture, is devoted primarily to empowering the mild-mannered and the meek. "The biggest thing we’re trying to accomplish is giving people a sense of empowerment," Yatch told KSTP.

"It’s the people that maybe might be a little intimidated around a gun or don’t necessarily feel comfortable having to fight with someone, those are the people who we can make the biggest difference in their lives," he said.

The experience is also available as part of a romantic couples package, so fear not if it’s date night and you’re jonesing for a targeted killing fix.

Ty McCormick was Africa editor at Foreign Policy from 2015-2018.

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