Posted on 06/16/2016 11:42:58 AM PDT by maggief
Robbie Abell, owner of a Florida gun shop, says he alerted authorities that a suspicious man had come in asking about body armor. Five weeks later, Omar Mateen equipped with weapons he bought at a different shop after Abells employees refused to sell to him killed 49 people and injured as many at Pulse night club in Orlando. The Wall Street Journal quotes Abell as telling them that his store, Lotus Gunworks of South Florida, shut him down on all sales after be began asking bizarre questions about body armor and bulk ammunition. The questions he was asking were not the normal questions a normal person would be asking He just seemed very odd, Abell said. The armor Mateen asked about is not traditionally available to civilians.
Abell noted that he made a phone call during his time in the store, and appeared to be speaking in Arabic. Mateen is from an Afghan family, and his father a prolific pro-Taliban Youtuber is known to speak at least two Afghan languages, Dari and Pashto. Mateens wife, Noor Salman, identifies as Palestinian, which would make her a likely Arabic speaker. She has confessed to shopping for weapons with Mateen.
Abell says his store alerted authorities to the suspicious man, though he did not say which authorities whether he spoke to local police, FBI, or Homeland Security. Local CBS 12 notes that Abells store appeared to be following the procedures in line with the FBIs push for people to see something, say something, if they witness anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.
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Reporting him to the same governments that issued him class d and class g licenses.
Of course nothing was going to be done.
He must have called the FBI. And they put it in the illary hopper by accident!
Probable Transcript:
-- Ring --
"Hello, FBI hotline, how can I help you?"
"Yeah, there was this guy in the store asking about military-grade body armor and bulk ammo purchases. He was acting really strangely.
"You did the right thing calling us - this is how we stop terrorism incidents before they happen."
"Yeah, glad to help. By the way, the guy made a phone call as well and spoke in Arabic."
"YOU ISLAMPHOBE! NO WONDER THE GUY WAS ACTING STRANGELY, HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF A BIGOT!"
-- click --
The law abiding gun owners and dealers did the right thing. The government screws up. The law abiding gun owners and dealers get punished.
[ Probable Transcript:
— Ring —
“Hello, FBI hotline, how can I help you?”
“Yeah, there was this guy in the store asking about military-grade body armor and bulk ammo purchases. He was acting really strangely.
“You did the right thing calling us - this is how we stop terrorism incidents before they happen.”
“Yeah, glad to help. By the way, the guy made a phone call as well and spoke in Arabic.”
“YOU ISLAMPHOBE! NO WONDER THE GUY WAS ACTING STRANGELY, HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF A BIGOT!”
— click — ]
You are probably at least 90% correct in that transcript!
So there were both general and specific warnings on this guy well in advance of his jihad. Sounds just like the Boston Bombers, only worse.
It sounds like this Abell guy actually had some “common sense”, a term the left likes to use for attempting to restrict sales to honest, law-abiding gun enthusiasts. Too bad they can’t find FBI agents who are as aware and cautious as the gun store owner.
Definitely the gun’s fault and not the inept FBI that let a crazy DEMOCRAT radical Islamic terrorist slip through their hands over and over again.
Sounds like the shop owner is a “racist” (even though Islam is not a race). CAIR needs to get on the ball and sue him for refusing to sell. If this goes unchallenged, other gun shop owners may refuse to sell to other followers of CAIR in the future.
And Obama needs to send the DOJ since this sounds like a civil rights violation.
Sounds like the George Zimmerman call.
The new script at 911 and the FBI says, “Is he a member of a protected class?”
But that would be hateful. Instead we should ban guns used by hunters in Maine. Especially if they are conservative Christian Republican hunters.
This will be a winning formula for Trump if he and his “handlers” don’t ignore it.
Law enforcement doesn’t give a rat’s patootie.
I had an employee who left an AK and a 9mm pistol on the ranch I managed. He did time for armed aggravated assault on his father in law. When he got out he wanted his weapons back. I called the sheriff to come and get them but he said he couldn’t. I repeatedly reminded him that this guy was a violent felon. I asked if they could be present when I handed the weapon over, the AK being illegal in CA. He said no. He said the weapons were his and I had to give them back. This I did after I ground the firing pins down and made some other modifications to guarantee failure. The sheriff said I had to give them back, he did not say I had to give them back in good working order.
I'm stealing that line
Not PC so not in the FBI Procedures Manual - see also reports of Minnesota Flight Schools only teaching take-offs and in-flight procedures to sundry Muslim students in 2000.
I don’t even know where to begin.
Decent Americans are tracked, followed, eavesdropped on, arrested, accused of terrorism simply because of their politics or religion yet a muslim who is openly plotting a massacre is given a green light and anyone who questions him is treated like a criminal.
Shaking my head...
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