month period purchases not just 6,000 rounds of ammo, but also severl guns, body armor, a gas mask, and gunpowder for the devices he planted in his apartment?? You have the benefit of seeing everything now.  You can see all he purchased. There are 320 million Americans.  Everyday there are literally millions of transactions. Unless you are monitoring a person's bank account and credit cards (which you need a warrant for) you can't know what they are buying. No judge will issue a warrant based on something as circumstantial as an ammunition purchase. threat assessment team combined with the accumulation of over 6000 rounds of ammo? If those two things, the report to the threat team and the accumulation of legally purchased ammo had been tracked and brought into a single report, do you think that should have triggered a search into his other purchases? I do believe we track sales of a certain fertilizer without stepping on anyone's toes. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.-Chris Hedges I've gotten a little lost reading your commentary, is that the focus of our government security force is for some reason placed on infiltrating and setting up brown men that the government says are thinking about blowing things up with underwear, instead of on the white men that have repeatedly committed mass killing by means of easily tracked purchases of legal guns