CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP)-- The FBI said Friday the gunman who opened fire on two recruiting offices, killing four Marines, had at least two long guns and one handgun, and some of the purchases were legal and some were not.
FBI agent Ed Reinhold did not go into specifics about the weapons at a news conference Friday.
He said investigators were also looking at all of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's overseas travel, as they search for clues to a motive in the deadly shootings. Abdulazeez was killed during his shooting rampage.
A relative says Abdulazeez has family in the West Bank and that he visited Jordan last year.
The relative, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person feared repercussions, says Abdulazeez was a "nice, educated guy." The relative says the family are mainstream Muslims, not fundamentalists. The person says "they fast, they pray and that is it."
Authorities in Kuwait are denying that Abdulazeez was a native of the Gulf nation, as had been earlier reported.
The official Kuwait News Agency on Friday quoted the Interior Ministry as saying 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was not "of Kuwaiti origin."
Calling him a "terrorist," the report described him as being "of Jordanian origin, born in Kuwait" during the 1990 Iraqi invasion. It did not elaborate.
The report added that Abdulazeez visited Kuwait on May 31, 2010 and left for Jordan less than three weeks later, on June 18.
In Tennessee, longtime neighbors of Abdulazeez say they saw him and a friend occasionally shoot pellet guns off the back deck of his home into the woods.
Karen Jones says Abdulazeez would shoot at a red target hanging from a tree. She says the family was friendly, and they often had dinner at each other's houses. She says Abdulazeez was dribbling a soccer ball in his front yard just a few days before the attacks at two military facilities on Thursday.
Jones says Abdulazeez often played with other neighborhood children when he was younger and was well-liked. She says he was typically clean-shaven until recently, when he grew a thick beard that surprised her somewhat.