Gun Shop Owner Reported “Suspicious” Omar Mateen to Authorities Five Weeks Before Orlando Massacre

Many Americans are angry that Omar Mateen’s wife, Noor Zahi Salman, has not been arrested after she confessed to advanced knowledge of — and even assistance in planning — Sunday’s terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando.  However, if the reports that have come out in the days following the attack are accurate, Salman is not the only one with blood on her hands.

Robbie Abell, the owner of a Florida gun shop claims to have warned authorities at least five weeks before Mateen carried out his brutal massacre.

The Wall Street Journal quotes Abell as telling them that his store, Lotus Gunworks of South Florida, “shut him down on all sales” after be began asking bizarre questions about body armor and bulk ammunition. “The questions he was asking were not the normal questions a normal person would be asking… He just seemed very odd,” Abell said. The armor Mateen asked about is not traditionally available to civilians.

Abell noted that he made a phone call during his time in the store, and appeared to be speaking in Arabic. Mateen is from an Afghan family, and his father – a prolific pro-Taliban Youtuber – is known to speak at least two Afghan languages, Dari and Pashto. Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, identifies as “Palestinian,” which would make her a likely Arabic speaker. She has confessed to shopping for weapons with Mateen.

Abell says his store alerted authorities to the suspicious man, though he did not say which authorities– whether he spoke to local police, FBI, or Homeland Security. Local CBS 12 notes that Abell’s store appeared to be following the procedures “in line with the FBI’s push for people to ‘see something, say something,‘ if they witness anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.”

Although hindsight is 20/20, it sounds more and more like there should have been enough foresight to have stopped Omar Mateen long before he took 49 young and innocent lives early Sunday morning.

Source: Breitbart