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The Branch Davidians partly supported themselves by trading at gun shows and took care to have the relevant paperwork to ensure their transactions were legal. [58] Branch Davidian Paul Fatta was a federal firearms licensed dealer, and the group operated a retail gun business called
Guinn covers the history of U.S. governmental surveillance of the Branch Davidians, primarily from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). He details the ATF raid on the Mount Carmel Center on 28 February 1993, and the ensuing siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are a Christian cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. They regard themselves as a continuation of the General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists, established by Victor Houteff in 1935. They have often been described as a doomsday cult.
Pete Bigelow, AOL On one side of a dust-scarred patch of country road, a modest ranch home sits barricaded behind a barbed-wire gate on which hang "Keep Out" and "Beware of Dog" signs. On the ...
After being exiled to the Palestine camp, Koresh and his followers eked out a primitive existence. When Lois died in 1986, the exiled Branch Davidians wondered if they would ever be able to return to the Mount Carmel Center, but despite the displacement "Koresh now enjoyed the loyalty of the majority of the [Branch Davidian] community". [29]
Waco: American Apocalypse is an American documentary television miniseries about the Waco siege in 1993 between the US federal government and the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh. It was released on Netflix on March 22, 2023, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the siege.
In Waco, Texas, a cult known as the Branch Davidians led by David Koresh, who thought he was Jesus, found itself in a standoff with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and local ...
The ATF was involved in the Waco Siege against the Branch Davidian religious sect near Waco, Texas, on February 28, 1993. ATF agents, accompanied by the press, conducted a raid to execute a federal search warrant on the sect's compound, known as Mt. Carmel. The Branch Davidians were alerted to the upcoming warrant execution, but ATF raid ...