For those DC prostiticians who claim that American gun stores are the main gun suppliers to the Mexican drug cartels, here’s a dose of reality. Gun store owners in Texas just stopped a terrorist attack in progress.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell in Kentucky, was arrested by the Killeen, Texas, Police Department near Fort Hood and remains in custody at the Killeen jail.
When arrested, Abdo possessed “weapons, explosives and jihadist materials.” His bomb making setup came “straight out of Inspire (a terrorist magazine) and an Al Qaeda explosives course manual.”
Abdo went into Guns Galore to buy smokeless powder and ammunition, but Guns Galore thought he acted suspiciously, so they called Killeen Police Department. (Guns Galore was where Nidal Hasan went before committing mass murder at Fort Hood.)
On July 4, Abdo went AWOL from Fort Campbell in Kentucky, after receiving conscientious objector status from the Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Army review board.
Authorities believe he was targeting a restaurant near Fort Hood that is popular with base personnel.
He wasn’t so non-violent after all.
So Carters Country is in trouble in Houston for selling to suspicious subjects at the request of the BATF (YES the ATF asked them to complete the sales) and this store catches a possible terrorist without the ATF’s help. I we you can reach our own conclusions here.
Save money, cut the ATF.
Why control guns ‘n ammo? Let’s just depend on suspicious gun store clerks.
Agreed, they do a much better job than ATF and FBI. If the gun stores weren’t forced by ATF they would not have sold guns to mexican drug cartels and would have reported the straw buyers to the cops.
Tthe gun store guys I know are painfully aware of the potential damage to the gun industry a single bad sale can create. They do keep their eyes peeled.
In this case, some dolt attempts to buy 6lbs of powder ( wow thats a bunch) and asks the clerk “What is smokeless powder?”. Its a no-brainer that he is up to no good.
Speaking of no-brainers, if the feds attempt to prosecute those gun stores that they insisted make the sales to the cartel straw buyers, I wonder what might come out at their trials? Surely the federal prosecutors will pressure them to plead out, but if the gun stores have half-way competent lawyers they will insist on a trial.
Yes Robert, its another government operation.
6 pounds isn’t that much. I know people that get 20 pound jugs for the savings and really big reloading jobs. But that with him not knowing what it is sends a flag up to me too. Maybe, he should have asked what the difference between black powder and smokeless powder is then he would have looked like a noobie and not a idiot terrorist.
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