CNN: FBI now saying it has no comment on that call from suspicious gun store staffers

Brett T. | 8:09 PM on June 16, 2016

This is curious. As Twitchy noted earlier, CNN reported Thursday morning that suspicious staff members of an Orlando gun store alerted police to nightclub shooter Omar Mateen weeks ago, after he had asked to purchase heavy body armor.

Just in: The gun store that sold weapons to #Orlando killer tells CNN that store staff was suspicious of him https://t.co/2DU28d5Jlz

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) June 16, 2016

By Thursday night, though, CNN’s Erin Burnett reported that the FBI had changed its tune, saying it had “no comment” on reports that the gun shop had called to alert authorities after first denying it had received any such call.

BREAKING: After initially saying they had no record of a call from a local gun shop, the #FBI now says "no comment" https://t.co/09VY8L6xWb

— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) June 16, 2016

No comment from FBI and BS from local Cops. @tutzerjd ? ?

— Jeffrey Deitelbaum (@tutzerjd) June 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/dkwhitlock1/status/743584618427748352

BUSTED! So it's not the gun, it's not the gun shop.. it's the government that's the problem.

— Colorado RedTraci (@goptraci) June 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/coryxoxo/status/743586568250654721

Perhaps the FBI has decided it’s best to withhold any comment on the lead-up to the nightclub massacre until the government has a better handle on “whatever the killer’s motive was.”