The red flag was that he was obviously a jihadi. These guys are clearly a bunch of racists, CAIR needs to jump on them.
The article is hard to understand. Reading between the lines I think he went to the local Fud shop and asked for items Fuds never use or want. That was his first mistake. Now he’s on their stink-eye radar. His second mistake was speaking in a foreign language. All of it combined caused a No Sale. Had he asked for a couple boxes of 30-30, 12ga or even the less-evil .223 it would have been a done deal with no questions asked.
That said many of my fellow gun owners would have gotten similar treatment b/c they like ‘tactical’ Things. Fuds look down on such people viewing them as radical or whatever. In their narrow view of the world no one needs a weapon holding more than x rds, that is semiauto, thats black, that has this or that. In short they would happily sell out other gun owners for a moment of fame or thinking their doing some great civic service.