20 DEAD AT NIGHTCLUB!?

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We saw this on the news earlier today


Gun Store Owner: We Alerted FBI to 'Suspicious' Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting

The owner of a Florida gun store said he tried to alert the FBI to a "very suspicious" man later identified as Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen after Mateen tried to buy body armor and bulk ammunition from the store.

Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn't carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk.


Abell said a member of his staff thought the questions were "odd" and made him uncomfortable, so he turned the man away.
Abell added that they thought the man was "very suspicious," so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn't have the man's name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.


"We gave them information and everything that took place, and that was the end of the conversation," he said.
There was a follow-up conversation with agents, Abell said, but the FBI never visited the store or investigated further.

Aah, damn.....they never obtained the man's ID being as they refused the sale due to acting suspicious, therefore they could not tell the FBI at that time "who" it was.



Seems like I remember last year, a couple of gun shops who refused to sell any weapons to Muslims, not that I do not blame them.
Who would want that blood on their hands if what they sold was used in a mass killing such as Orlando Nightclub tragedy.

Wow. I know hindsight is 20/20 but I can't believe they were freaked out enough to deny him a sale (after he asked for a bunch of ammo and armor after speaking in a "foreign language" but didn't catch a plate or anything. Not to say it would've prevented anything but we've thrown people onto lists and into custody for less that that. Say a few magic words on social media (which he apparently did that as well....) and you have a set of eyes on you for most people.