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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean it never happens?  Isn't that exactly what happened with the Orlando shooter ... he was taken off the watch list after the investigation closed?

Obviously in hindsight, they should have investigated him more closely ... or maybe there really just weren't any signs there.  But even if they missed the Orlando shooter, it show that the process of putting a few extra steps between people on the watch lists and guns is a good idea.  The watch list process had identified the Orlando shooter as a potential problem, and if he'd tried to buy a gun while on the watch list, I'd certainly have wanted him blocked until the investigation could be assessed.  If he was dropped from the watch list too soon, that's a different problem with a different solution.[/quote]
We know nothing about his watch list status, that's classified. The whole point is that being on the watch list doesn't disqualify you from buying guns.

As to never getting off the no-fly list, the next time you see a peace activist ask him which train he came in on.[/quote]

You don't know what the hell you're talking about.  It's been reported all over the place that he was on a watch list, but then got removed.  One example ...

[quote]One of the people they spoke to was Omar Mateen, a young security guard from a nearby town who had attended the same mosque as the suicide bomber and [u]had been on a terrorism watch list for incendiary comments he once made to co-workers at a local courthouse[/u]. But the F.B.I. soon ended its examination of Mr. Mateen after finding no evidence that he posed a terrorist threat to his community.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/politics/orlando-shooting-omar-mateen.html[/quote]

Several thousand others - https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=omar%20mateen%20watch%20list&oq=omar%20mateen%20watch%20list&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS533US533&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.5017j0j4[/quote]

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