The Latest: Club shooter was licensed as security officer

The Associated Press ^ | June 12, 2016

[2ndDivisionVet]

The suspected Orlando nightclub gunman had been licensed as a private security officer in Florida.

State records show suspected shooter Omar Mateen held the firearms license since at least 2011. It was set to expire in September 2017.

It wasn't immediately clear where, if anywhere, Mateen had worked as a security officer. An armed guard license in Florida requires 28 hours of classroom training by a licensed instructor....

[Travis McGee]

[Fido969]

Was he licenced as an ARMED security officer?

[morphing libertarian]

My suggestion, no guns for islamic terrorists. No bodyguards armed for hollywood or broadway celebrities.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The latest: he was a Democrat...
The latest: he was a Muslim...
The latest: he had weapons training in Afghanistan...
The latest: he directed his one-man jihad at a gun-free zone...

The latest...

[Thumper1960]

They didn’t do a very good background check or vetting on this dirtbag. Government. Yeah, I trust ‘em.

[disndat]

59 dead

Note to self: Stay away from gun free zones.

[RegulatorCountry]

Might be a good idea look into the company that hired him.

[CedarDave]

The ATF agent in charge in central Florida just said at the most recent newsconference that Mateen bought the firearms used, a long gun and hand gun, at a licensed gun store within the past two weeks.

[ameribbean expat]

All indications are the feds had picked up on this guy twice, and dindoonuffin. Federal agencies may or may not be talking to each other after 9/11, but they don’t appear to be talking with state level law enforcement, in this case FDLE. And guess who has street level responsibility.

[Cboldt]

-- Was he licenced as an ARMED security officer? --

Yes.

[Cboldt]

The FBI, to make us all feel better about their handling of this one, lets us know that there are hundreds with similar patterns of suspicious conduct that aren’t being picked up either.

[choctaw man]

Just the kind of guy you want watching your back! How stupid in the first place...

[Thumper1960]

I’d think it as important to look into the government azzez who failed to stop him.

[thouworm]

See Mateen's firearm licenses in this thread:

Omar Mateen—Florida Firearms/Security Officer License [link]

MATEEN, OMAR

D 2723758 ISSUED, EXPIRES 09/14/2017
G 2704169 ISSUED, EXPIRES 09/13/2017

Application For Security Officer License - Class "d" (FDACS-16007) [pdf]
Application For Statewide Firearm License- Class "g" (FDACS-16008) [pdf]

[Cobra64]

If so, it appears the FBI did not connect the dots of when he was a "person of interest," and his firearms purchase on Federal Form 4473 documentation.

FBI: "Let's see. we've been watching this guy for years, and he just bought a pistol. Oh, never mind, no risk here..."

[blueplum]

He worked for G4S. Don't know if there's a connection to GRS, mentioned in the book, Thirteen Hours, but G4S is ultimately a Brit company focused on international government security contracts. We haven't been told what position he held at G4S, only that 2 years ago, he was questioned by the FBI. I guess it wasn't enough to cost him his job, which we don't know about yet, but he had been there 9 years, meaning he'd started work there about 20yo. This is not the first child of naturalized citizens who has pursued a job in security or government and taken arms up against Americans. Pattern?

[heye2monn]

He’ll definitely lose his license now.

[fella]

FR boss Jim Robinson posted this information hours ago. AP must lurk here.

[hal ogen]

Didn't some FED security officer murder a few people in a maryland ( THE Freak state) shopping mall parking lot a few weeks ago?