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SR-25 Sniper Rifle carried by SCPO Britt Slabinski 


Brown Painted modern rifle SR-25 Stoner 7.62mm MK 1 Mod 0 of MCPO Britt Slabinski

Title: Rifle, Sniper, 7.62mm, SR-25, Stoner, US
Accession #: NHHC 2018.026.001
Circa: 2002
Size: 
Medium: Metal, Plastic
Location: Headquarters Artifact Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command

A gas-operated, magazine fed, semi-automatic rifle with a collapsible synthetic buttstock. The receiver is two-piece, with an upper and a lower half, a right hand ejection port with hinged cover, a plastic pistol grip, a charging handle at top rear and a MIL-STD-1913 rail on the top. The barrel is a free-floating design with a perforated tubular handguard with a Rail Interface System and a short muzzle break at the end that allows the quick attachment of a sound suppressor. The receiver, pistol grip and buttstock have been spray-painted in a tan/brown camouflage pattern. The barrel assembly is a replacement installed by Naval Special Warfare personnel and is not camouflaged.

The SR-25 was designed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by Knights Armament Company (KAC) in the early 1990’s. The rifle combines aspects of both the AR-10 and AR-15 designs with more modern technology. The weapon is a semi-automatic, gas operated, 7.62mm NATO caliber precision rifle with a free-floating 20” match grade barrel, MIL-STD-1913 rail mount equipped handguard and upper receiver, and a Naval Surface Weapons Center, Crane-designed adjustable buttstock. The rifle would have been equipped with a Leupold Mk 4 telescope, a Harris bipod, an AN/PEQ-2 infrared illuminator and a KAC quick-detach sound suppressor. The SR-25 was adopted as the Mk 11 Mod 0 by US Special Operations Command in May 2000.

This example was carried by then-Senior Chief Britt “Slab” Slabinski in Afghanistan during 2002. Master Chief Petty Officer Slabinski was awarded the Medal of Honor on May 24, 2018 for his actions while serving as Team Leader of MAKO 30 during the Battle of Takur Ghar in support of Operation Anaconda on 4-5 March 2002. Op Anaconda was the first major ground combat operation in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Published: Tue Apr 14 15:19:49 EDT 2020