History
Double taps are an integral part of the El Presidente combat pistol shooting drill developed by Jeff Cooper in the 1970s and published in the January/February 1979 issue of American Handgunner. Also developed in the 1970s is the Failure Drill or Mozambique Drill, developed by Jeff Cooper student Mike Rousseau. This drill is to practice a situation where a double-tap to the torso fails to stop an attacker and so there's a third shot to the head.
It has been reported that a double tap was used by US Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group to kill Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 1, 2011.
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