A must read article about the owner of the St. Lucie Shooting Center, who sold Omar Mateen weapons. Meet Ed Henson, retired NYPD Officer:
He was confident that his store and made the sales by the book. Mateen would have had to go through the same three-day waiting period that applies to all gun buyers, he told the paper.
“I have a business,” he said. “I follow the law, I don’t make the law.”
Fair enough.
In December of last year, Henson posted to Facebook an image reading “In the name of freedom: F--- Islam, F--- Allah. F--- Muhammad. F--- the Koran. F--- people who support terrorism.”
Uh oh.
In November he wrote alongside an image of Obama, “He should be handcuffed, removed from Office and charged with Treason and then publicly executed! How can the American People and military stand by and do nothing while this piece of sh-- puts everyone of us in danger.”
Lovely!
As for selling the gun to Mateen, Derocher doubted Henson could have done anything differently.
“You can't judge a guy by the way he looks,” Derocher said.
I’ll just let the irony of the last line sink in