Several weeks before Omar Mateen would massacre more than 50 individuals at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, weary gun shop employees turned Mateen away from their store and notified the FBI.
The gun shop told the feds that Mateen was acting very suspiciously and asking questions that raised alarm.
Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn’t carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk.
Abell said a member of his staff thought the questions were “odd” and made him uncomfortable, so he turned the man away.
Abell added that they thought the man was “very suspicious,” so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn’t have the man’s name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.
“We gave them information and everything that took place, and that was the end of the conversation,” he said.
There was a follow-up conversation with agents, Abell said, but the FBI never visited the store or investigated further.
That was the end of it until he saw the news about the Orlando shooting that took place early Sunday morning and images of the man identified as the killer: Mateen, the man who Abell said was in the store.
“He slipped through the cracks,” Abell said.
He said his staffers contacted the FBI after the shooting to remind them about their run-in with the suspicious man. The store’s surveillance tape, however, had long since been overwritten, he said.
Public affairs officials for the FBI’s Miami field office, which oversees the West Palm Beach satellite office, and at headquarters in Washington, D.C., declined comment.
This is developing into a pattern of incompetence. The federal government had previously investigated Mateen and closed the investigation despite reports that he had threatened violence, his travel to Saudi Arabia, and his links to Islamic radicals. Now the federal government is eager to point the finger at gun owners; however, it was clearly the feds that dropped the ball.
and now they are going to start demonizing body armor too
Ok Ahmeel you passed the background check now just need you to eat this rasher of bacon………..
It is not and never was incompetence. Sibel Edmunds proved that. They already know not to investigate reports from that shop on that day because they already knew he was going to that shop on that day. He was propably talking to a frickin FBI guy on the frickin phone. If any of this comes out, then he is simply part of a drill or a sting operation. If it stays quiet, the drill goes live.
FBI reports to the DOJ. The DOJ upper management is rife with Muslim Brotherhood influence. These “investigations” are all window dressing to make it appear the FBI is doing something to protect us. It’s all fakery.
When are Americans going to demand a return on our Trillion dollar post 9/11 investment in the DHS? I don’t think we’re getting our money’s worth.
I don’t hear this as a topic coming out of either Hitlery or Trump’s mouths.
One other point I’d like to hear discussed: If Hitlery had just followed the fucking State Dept rules on handling secret shit, then maybe the FBI wouldn’t have had the need to assign over 100 agents to investigate her criminal case. Maybe one of those agents could have investigated this Mateen fuckers actions and thwarted the attack. Just maybe.
Hey Westie- Long time no see.
Have you come to grips with Uncle Bern not getting the nomination?
Looks like Obama told the FBI not to investigate Muslims or Mosques
“the FBI never visited the store or investigated further.”
If it had been some poor chooch who hollered “Obama sucks” in public, they would have opened a file on him for sure.
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