There’s one man who tried shooting at the Navy SEALs singlehandedly and who is going to live to tell the tale --- in jail. Last week, a California man pleaded guilty to shooting at trainee Navy SEALs and instrsuctors with a pellet gun, a day before his trial to start.

The suspect, 48 year old Scott Weaver of San Diego, California, confronted with a pellet gun the Navy SEAL instructors and trainees who were conducting a night time qualification dive near the Road bridge at Liberty Station last 23 July 2018. He then started shooting at the trainees who were diving leading to the group to call the San Diego Police.

Weaver was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a replica firearm, threats, and obstruction. The assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed at a previous hearing but still, Weaver faces a year in jail when he will be sentenced on the 1st of November according to Fox News.

No one in the training group was injured.

Photo: U.S. Navy Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) (BUD/S) trainees linking arms  (Photo by: JOCS Lee Coleman)

A Navy spokesperson confirmed that the unit were doing training San Diego Bay. The United States Naval Special Warfare Command (NWSC) was established in 1987 at the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, California. The SEAL training school, the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) is also there and this where future SEALs train in the Silver Strand surf and other areas in San Diego.

As to what threats that Weaver said to the group, it was not revealed, the Police do not know if the suspect had a motive for shooting at the Navy SEALs or if he knows who he was shooting at . The replica firearm, whilst it is a pellet gun was clarified if it is a BB pellet gun or a plastic BB airsoft gun. Nevertheless, using a replica firearm to threaten people, will always carry a punishment.

Thanks to Airsoft Fury for this story.

Top Photo: U.S. Navy Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) (BUD/S) Trainees (Photo by: JOCS Lee Coleman)