Orlando Shooter Raised Suspicion at Gun Shops

Wall Street Journal ^ | June 16, 2016 | Charles Passy, Josh Mitchell and Laura Stevens

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JENSEN BEACH, Fla.— Omar Mateen visited a gun shop in this town near his home about five or six weeks ago. His request: heavy-duty body armor—rated IIIA, the sort typically used by law enforcement—and bulk ammunition.

While at the store, Mateen had a phone conversation in which he appeared to be speaking in a Middle Eastern language, according to Robbie Abell, the co-owner of the store, Lotus Gunworks of South Florida. Staffers also noticed him texting on his phone.

Mateen “just seemed very odd,” Mr. Abell said. “The questions he was asking [about body armor] were not the normal questions a normal person would be asking.”

Lotus Gunworks doesn’t carry armor. Employees declined to sell Mateen bulk ammunition, turning him away. “If something is suspicious, it’s our discretion,” Mr. Abell said. “We are the gatekeeper.”

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Susanne Coburn Laforest, a 61-year-old retired corrections offer and former classmate of Mateen, didn’t recall his comments regarding Virginia Tech. She said he threatened to shoot his classmates at the cookout—which she said was held on a gun range—after his hamburger touched pork.

He “flipped out,” she said, told people not to laugh at him and said “he was going to come back and shoot us,” she recalled.

[thatdewd]

Wow, those racist shop owners should be prosecuted! For something...because they’re racist, right? Right?....No ...... LEFT...

[IChing]

In wartime (and this IS war) due process for the suspected enemy — Muslims — must not be the neurotic focus, although it must be intact for those clearly having no association with Islam.

Notice that we had no series of Kamikaze attacks here on our soil after Pearl Harbor. That was because we justifiably rounded up the Issei and Nisei, and denied them due process, because war energency warranted it.

Notice also that since 9/11, we’ve had Little Rock, Chattanooga, Times Square, Jose Padilla, Richard Reid, Times Square, Ft. Dix Six, Ft. Hood, Boston Marathon, Garland, San Bernardino, Orlando, and countless other jihad incidents across the land.

This IS war emergency. No due process for the enemy nor the enemy’s extended familial/cultural support network.

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