This was/is my concern regarding the PA.
It would mean more if it was somewhere other than New American. It’s not exactly a trustworthy source.
But even so, it’s got nothing to do with the Patriot Act. It seems to be about a program at the FBI to ask gun shops to be alert for certain suspicious people and to report people that fit a profile. So Achmed and Mohammed visit a gun store and want to buy several AKS rifles for cash and give conflicting information about where they live and seem nervous... should the gun shop NOT report that?