Gun dealer stops terrorist attack?

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Really??????????

jelayne Thats awesome...but you know the major medial outlets don't like to publish articles which go against their agenda.
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It's been covered by every network tv station, radio station and newspaper in Texas........and every radio station aired an interview with the gun shop owner.
 
The guy arrived in a taxi, went in to buy multiple cans of smokeless powder... then asked how to use it.

I'd certainly hope that any other gun store owner would consider that suspicious enough to make a call as well.

Odd occurences probably make him as nervous as a 9 tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs after he sold the Five-seven to the fort hood shooter.

Ya' done good Sir, keep it up.
 
On NPR this morning.

Police in Killeen said their break in the case came Tuesday from Guns Galore LLC — the same gun store where Maj. Nidal Hasan bought a pistol used in the 2009 attack. Store clerk Greg Ebert said Abdo arrived by taxi and bought 6 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, three boxes of shotgun ammunition and a magazine for a semi-automatic pistol.

Ebert said he called authorities because he and his co-workers "felt uncomfortable with his overall demeanor and the fact he didn't know what the hell he was buying."

"We would probably be here today, giving you a different briefing, had he not been stopped," said Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin, who called the plan "a terror plot."
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Sounds like it's getting covered by the media.
 
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I'm sitting in Colorado, but I always stream radio stations out of Alaska and Idaho. Even I heard about this through one of those radio streams.

We should expect more attempts like this. It's only a matter of time I suppose.
 
I have to admit that I got a chuckle out of some of national news casts mentioning "smokeless gun powder" and linking this to a terrorist plot in itself. Ya know... who needs smokeless powder? These reporters had no idea that smokelss gun powder is normal. 6 cans is not that much, but the fact that the guy acted suspicious was his downfall. The gunshop did good.
 
22-rimfire I have to admit that I got a chuckle out of some of national news casts mentioning "smokeless gun powder" and linking this to a terrorist plot in itself. Ya know... who needs smokeless powder? These reporters had no idea that smokelss gun powder is normal. 6 cans is not that much, but the fact that the guy acted suspicious was his downfall. The gunshop did good.
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The first radio report I heard on this story the reporter called it "smokeless black powder".....I wonder how he could have afforded that stuff it's invisible to x-rays and costs more than I make in a month.:rolleyes:
 
I have to admit that I got a chuckle out of some of national news casts mentioning "smokeless gun powder" and linking this to a terrorist plot in itself. Ya know... who needs smokeless powder? These reporters had no idea that smokelss gun powder is normal. 6 cans is not that much, but the fact that the guy acted suspicious was his downfall. The gunshop did good.
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its only a matter of time now before some politicain gets the bright idea to try to ban smokeless powder because it is the choice of snipers and madmen because it produces no smoke so people cannot see where the shot came from.....
 
The gun shop needed some good publicity in the area. They had someone walk in 2 weeks ago with ammunition and ask to see a gun. Put a round in and shot himself in the head. Died about 4 days later. This guy was apparently a loose canon already.

Also the same gun shop that Nadal bought his guns for the "Ft Hood Massacre". Glad they could get some good press, usually it is business as usually and no one notices them or negative press since that is what sells in the media.
 
Been here quite a while lurking, reading and learning. Just haven't posted any..... I guess I should post an intro thread....Thanks for the welcome, Hi, I'm Shawn, live in the Central Texas/Fort Hood Texas area.
 
Reporting suspicious activity isn't spying on your neighbor.

I suppose you think the gunshop should've sold the guy the powder?

I encourage all persons to use their brains before they type.
 
It's ironic that the shop workers probably intuitively used profiling to prevent a horrible crime, and someone here has a problem with that.

Profiling Stops crimes, it isn't a crime.
 
The guy who called it in gets an "Attaboy" from this corner. Whenever I was asked back in the day about when to call the cops I always simply said, trust your instincts.... If the guy or gal sets off your alarms call it in. Most calls turn out to be nothing and that's why many cops act casually most of the time. If there's nothing to worry about that will be the end of the matter. That one time when the guy is up to something bad you might just save a life or lives... Think of the horrible things in just recent memory that might never have happened if someone called it in and the guy was stopped before he could to the harm.

I'll get down off of my soapbox now....
 
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It's ironic that the shop workers probably intuitively used profiling to prevent a horrible crime, and someone here has a problem with that.

Profiling Stops crimes, it isn't a crime.
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The shop used behavioral profiling to notice that something was suspicious about the customer. That doesn't make demographic profiling acceptable.
 
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