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That's a big loophole in federal law.
A woman who answered the phone at Uber’s Lock and Gun, the Pensacola retailer that reportedly sold the gun to Alshamrani, declined to comment on whether the store received the bulletin from the FBI. Two other Florida gun retailers told Yahoo News they had not received the FBI report and were unaware of the bureau’s Office of Private Sector. The owner of a third Florida gun shop told Yahoo News he does receive bulletins from the FBI office, but he could not recall the report on the hunting license loophole.
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More than a dozen Saudi servicemen training at US military installations will be expelled from the United States after a review that followed the deadly shooting last month at a Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, multiple sources told CNN.

The Saudis are not accused of aiding the 21-year-old Saudi Air Force second lieutenant who killed three American sailors in the December shooting, two sources said, but some are said to have connections to extremist movements, according to a person familiar with the situation. A number are also accused of possessing child pornography, according to a defense official and the person familiar with the situation. The FBI and Justice Department declined to comment.

"In the wake of the Pensacola tragedy, the Department of Defense restricted to classroom training programs foreign military students from Saudi Arabia while we conducted a review and enhancement of our foreign student vetting procedures," said Lt. Col. Robert Carver, a spokesman for the Department of Defense. "That training pause is still in place while we implement new screening and security measures."

About a dozen Saudi trainees at the Pensacola base had been confined to their quarters as the FBI investigated the shooting as a potential terror attack, and the Pentagon initiated a review of all Saudi military trainees in the country, numbering around 850 students.
The Justice Department is expected to conclude that the Pensacola shooting was in fact an act of terrorism, according to a US official. No co-conspirators have been charged as part of the investigation, and the Saudi government has pledged its full support.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics ... index.html
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A Saudi Air Force officer who went on a deadly gun rampage at a US naval base in December 2019 worked with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to plan the attack, US officials say. The gunman's phone revealed the terror link, the FBI and Department of Justice said. The Pensacola, Florida, attack killed three US sailors and injured eight. Prosecutors criticised Apple for refusing to unlock the gunman's phones, which authorities took months to hack.

The attack led to the expulsion of 21 Saudi military pupils who had been studying at the base with the attacker. According to the FBI, the gunman, who was killed by authorities after shooting 11 people, had been radicalised before arriving Florida for a three-year aviation course the US navy hosts for allied foreign servicemen. Records revealed that he had been in active contact with AQAP, an off-shoot of al-Qaeda based in Yemen, up to the shooting, including talking about plans to carry out a "special operation" for them.

The group's leader, Qasim al-Raymi, was confirmed in February to have been killed during a US operation. AQAP had released an audio message earlier that month with Raymi's voice, in which he said the group was behind the naval base shooting.
Mohammed Alshamrani had been speaking regularly with a contact with AQAP and was "certainly more than just inspired" by the terror group, Mr Wray said when asked if the attacker had been "directed" from abroad. He was frequently "sharing plans and tactics with them", including video he made of the campus, said Mr Wray.

He was "co-ordinating with them and providing them an opportunity to take credit," he said, adding that the group released Alshamrani's will after his death. He was radicalised in 2015, officials said, and his communications with the terror group "continued right up until the end, the very night before he started shooting". The expelled Saudi students were found to have had jihadist material and indecent images of children in their possession, investigators have said, but none were accused of aiding the killer.

US Attorney General William Barr vowed that Saudi Arabia would conduct a review to determine if any soldiers should face military discipline or criminal charges in the US. The investigation continues.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52713702
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Wow.

Florida Gov DeSantis: "Second Amendment applies so that we the American people can keep and bear arms,” “But it does not apply to Saudi Arabians.”"

Is there really a nationality test in Florida? Better tell every foreign consulate about this "no arms for foreigners" law!
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senorgrand wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 5:54 pm Hey -- maybe Saudi Arabia isn't really our friend and we should stop supporting and bowing down (literally) to a repressive regime responsible for killing thousands of Americans?
I don't know... this is probably just one isolated case of terrorism. I bet you can't name one other terrorist incident! :sarcasm:
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