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Oh. I must have misunderstood. "90% of the American public want to close the background checks "loopholes" and do not want suspected terrorists to be able to buy guns" kinda sounds like it's about gun control to me.I've never said this was about gun control.Uh huh. The FBI talked to Mateen a couple of times. It's so hard for them to keep up with all the reports. Yeah, not enough man power not enough money. See something say something, is just another slogan. Mateen was a bad guy who did a terror act. He didn't do it because of "gun loopholes".They should be doubling the FBI's budget to hire enough people to keep investigations open when there are numerous red flags, such as Mateen's case. But the FBI couldn't do much with a report about wanting body armor when they didn't have a name, a license plate #, or a photo of the guy. If I'd been the clerk, I would have tried to get a name, by asking if he'd like to leave his contact info and I'd ask around. Or trying to get his plate # if that wasn't too obvious, depending on the parking lot. But they didn't/couldn't. There was plenty of other stuff the FBI could have followed up on, however, including the routine report that hit their desk when he legally purchased his guns. They didn't follow up on that.A gun shop were Mateen tried to buy body armor considered him hinky, refused to sell him armor or ammo and reported him to the FBI. This was 4 or 5 weeks before the Orlando killings. The FBI did not follow up on the tip from the gun shop even though the FBI had had a couple of reports on Mateen in the past. But commentators aren't talking about that sort of loophole, for some reason.