The gun shop owner who sold Omar Mateen the two firearms used in a terrorist attack at an Orlando night club Sunday morning is pushing back against claims he broke the law to sell the guns.

Ed Henson, a retired New York Police Department detective who worked at the Twin Towers during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, explained his employees were not to blame for selling weapons to the alleged Islamic State-inspired terrorist.

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