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.
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The FBI is flat on their ass, but NEVER calls out muzzies Lynch, Jeh, ValJar, Hussein or H->!.
Don’t believe it.
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?
Don’ tell me this shop didn’t have a surveillance system...both inside and out.
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.
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.
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?
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?
well i hope somebody puts in a freedom or information act request in on these things...
It’s called CYA!!
This is the same FBI investigating Hillary.
The gun shop owner probably was severely warned for profiling a upstanding Muslim citizen.
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.
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.
Bullcrap. What about his 4473?
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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.
The shop owner referred him to another shop....did the FBI contact the referred shop?
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.
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?
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