Posted on 06/16/2016 7:29:40 PM PDT by bryan999
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 Abell’s employees refused to sell to him – killed 49 people and injured as many at Pulse night club in Orlando.
UPDATE: Abell has since confirmed the agency he contact was the FBI.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Abell as telling them that his store, Lotus Gunworks of South Florida, “shut him down on all sales” after he 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.
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So obama screaming about GUNS, is that an Alinksy tactic?
First time I used his name :)
Any word on how much this guy made as a security guard?
Seemed to have lots of money for overseas trips and weaponry.
More from the article for those not wanting to shuffle thru breitbart.com , which can get tedious:
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. Mateen’s 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 Abell’s store appeared to be following the procedures “in line with the FBI’s push for people to ‘see something, say something,‘ if they witness anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.”
The FBI had been alerted to Mateen as a potential terrorist in the past. The FBI had investigated Mateen for violent remarks and suspect behavior three times between 2013-2014, while he was employed as armed security personnel at the firm G4S. He was never fired despite being investigated, however, and the FBI eventually dropped their probe against Mateen.
Of course the Feds did nothing, cant say anything negative about Islam Obama already has anything anti Muslim scrubbed from the FBI playbook
Our current sociopathic dictatorship is responsible for the deaths of at least 49 Americans in Orlando.
And everyone knows it.
Technology is so cheap, it’s long past time that we should all be taping our phone calls. Wait a minute. Thank you Florida FOR MAKING TAPING ILLEGAL.
Time to change the law. We have rights and one of the rights if the right to record our phone call conversations.
The quality of the FBI’s work on this case is as good as their work on 11/22/63
Judicial Watch: Homeland Security Records Reveal Officials Ordered Terrorist Watch List Scrubbed
They did a great job for LBJ.
The American PEOPLE are FINE.
It’s our leadership that is STUPID AS HELL.
Trump is right.
so the FBI investigated this terrorist twice and Disney and this gun store both alerted the FBI about him and yet, somehow, this is a gun control failure? Sure it is.
1. beat his wife
2. knew suicide-bombers
3. traveled abroad for weapons training
4. THREE FBI investigations
5. Other gun shop calls-up, “this guy is shady as hell..”
BUT STILL PASSED HIS INSTANT BACKGROUND CHECK..!
If not at THIS guy, WHO are these checks aimed at...?
Obama sucks.
Robbie Abell, owner of a Florida gun shop, says he alerted authorities that a suspicious man had come in asking about body armor.
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Has he been charged with Islamophobia yet?
Of course the Feds did nothing, cant say anything negative about Islam
They did worse than nothing: Jeh Johnson admitted on CNN DHS can’t go after Muslims anymore. DHS can only collaborate with the imams. I often wondered how it came to pass that wide swaths of Britain and France have gone under the rule of Sharia Law. Now we can witness it happening in our Homeland as the Obama administration has abdicated it’s sovereignty over Mosques and the Moslem community.
Didn’t Disney also alert the FBI?
Thank you!
A huge omission of mine.
Thanks!
This does not fit the leftist meme.
A coworker of the jihadist who was interviewed on KABC radio (LA) said he quit his $12.75 an hour security guard job because he couldn’t get his supervisor to do anything about the psycho’s behavior.
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