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cynzke

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6. According To The First Owner....

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:22 AM

Jun 2016

Mateen was asking questions and behaving in a manner that was suspicious. Since he got turned down the first time, perhaps it tipped Mateen off, he avoided setting off any alarms at the second time. IF this really happened and the first shop was concerned, you would have thought the first gun shop would have tried to get a verifiable identification. He didn't even have a name.

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