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The Latest: FBI confirms prior contact with body armor shop
Houston Chronicle ^ | 06/17/2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/17/2016 1:37:58 PM PDT by SSS Two

The FBI is confirming that agents spoke last month with a Florida gun shop where Orlando shooter Omar Mateen asked to buy body armor and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

But the FBI says store employees did not provide any information about him, preventing "any meaningful investigative follow up."

Lotus Gunworks has said it turned Mateen away because it did not carry the style of body armor he wanted and referred him elsewhere.

Store officials told the FBI about the encounter last month when agents followed up on an unrelated investigative matter.

However, the store did not have his name, date of birth, telephone number or other information. The shop notified the FBI after the shooting to say that the unknown man who had visited them resembled the nightclub shooter.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


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I know, I know. The "body armor shop" didn't even sell body armor. It's the AP. What do you expect? The AP thinks an AR-15 is an assault rifle.
1 posted on 06/17/2016 1:37:58 PM PDT by SSS Two
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The FBI is flat on their ass, but NEVER calls out muzzies Lynch, Jeh, ValJar, Hussein or H->!.


2 posted on 06/17/2016 1:40:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....)
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To: SSS Two

Don’t believe it.


3 posted on 06/17/2016 1:40:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Not picking on the gun shop owner but maybe a copy of the security tape would have been helpful.

Doesn’t the FBI have face recognition software?


4 posted on 06/17/2016 1:40:33 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: SSS Two

Don’ tell me this shop didn’t have a surveillance system...both inside and out.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 1:41:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Exactly what I was thinking. I’ll bet that a report of a white guy threatening to shoot up a mosque would have been met with more than a shug of the shoulders.


6 posted on 06/17/2016 1:44:53 PM PDT by lovesdogs (Think Trump won't make Mexico pay for the wall? Hillary's running pro Trump ads on her dime.)
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To: SSS Two

Even with it a name, the store likely had video footage. Did the FBI bother to look at it? After all, they had this guy under surveillance in 2014, allegedly. This begins to look like yet another Fast an Furious screwup.


7 posted on 06/17/2016 1:45:23 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Ok, so they couldn’t trace the description of an area Muslim who might be on a list?

And did they follow up with the referral to the other store?


8 posted on 06/17/2016 1:46:28 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget Women & children hurt the most. #BoycottPGA.)
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Wait so If I don’t have the name address and telephone number of someone I suspect will attempt to say go after Obama, The Fbi will not follow up?


9 posted on 06/17/2016 1:46:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The US is now as corrupt as Mexico. Hillary will be rewarded. The US is only a Goldman Brand now.)
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well i hope somebody puts in a freedom or information act request in on these things...


10 posted on 06/17/2016 1:47:35 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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It’s called CYA!!


11 posted on 06/17/2016 1:48:09 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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This is the same FBI investigating Hillary.


12 posted on 06/17/2016 1:49:09 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The US is now as corrupt as Mexico. Hillary will be rewarded. The US is only a Goldman Brand now.)
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The gun shop owner probably was severely warned for profiling a upstanding Muslim citizen.


13 posted on 06/17/2016 1:49:53 PM PDT by JimSEA
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If you know of a terrorist plot to attack the WH and don’t have the names,addresses and phone numbers of the suspects

dont bother reporting it.

FBI will not follow through.


14 posted on 06/17/2016 1:51:20 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The US is now as corrupt as Mexico. Hillary will be rewarded. The US is only a Goldman Brand now.)
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The FBI completely failed with this guy. You can blame Obama, but only to a point.

In this instance, and in far too many others, it seems the FBI has consistently shown dereliction of duty.


15 posted on 06/17/2016 1:52:14 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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Bullcrap. What about his 4473?

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16 posted on 06/17/2016 1:53:01 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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As with 9-11, which was allowed because of eight years of utter failure of intelligence under eight years of Clinton, so now under eight years of Obama, the deadliest US mass shooting in modern history has been allowed because of utter failure of intelligence.

As Reagan rebuilt our military and intelligence to be second to none in the world, so Trump will do the same. America would probably disappear under Hillary which is why she will not be elected.


17 posted on 06/17/2016 1:57:51 PM PDT by Jim W N
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The shop owner referred him to another shop....did the FBI contact the referred shop?


18 posted on 06/17/2016 1:57:55 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Sacajaweau

if its in jensen beach florida go to google maps i couldnt see ouotside cameras but if you walk inside they have a monitor showing 8 cameras to the side of entrance. they also have a monitor when you walk in the front door showing those that walk in and a couple of parking places in front.


19 posted on 06/17/2016 1:58:34 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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Irrelevant at this point whether or not the owner got a name, address etc. I am sure he called the FBI after the attack just to let them know the killer was in their shop, talking to someone on a phone in Arabic, several weeks before the attack. Does anyone think this wasn’t the right thing to do because of an ongoing investigation of the murder of 49 people and might be helpful information?


20 posted on 06/17/2016 2:01:54 PM PDT by Toespi
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