A marquee GOP Senate recruit and ex-Navy SEAL admits he lied about how he received a gunshot wound

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• Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told WaPo he lied about how he got a gunshot wound.
• Sheehy told a park ranger in 2015 that he was shot after his firearm accidentally discharged.
• But Sheehy recently admitted he was shot in uncertain circumstances while serving in Afghanistan.

Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and one of GOP's star recruits of the 2024 election cycle, admitted to The Washington Post that he lied to a National Park Service ranger about being shot during a 2015 incident at the state's Glacier National Park.

The admission comes after Sheehy, a wealthy aerospace executive who's aiming to take on three-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, had previously given inconsistent statements about how he was shot in his right arm.

In October 2015, Sheehy informed a ranger that he had shot himself in the right arm after his Colt .45 revolver fell to the ground and discharged, according to records filed in the US District Court for the District of Montana.

According to the Post, a description of the incident contained within a federal citation noted that the gunshot left a bullet in Sheehy's right arm. The written details of the citation, which was issued by the ranger, were based on Sheehy's recounting of the incident.