Originally Posted by Rochard

I'm not about to watch a slanted two hour documentary on Waco when I can read two paragraphs on Wikipedia and figure it out. ATF served a warrant and was shot at - and that's all I need to know. Once you start killing federal agents you know they are going to bitch smack you.



I read this too on Wikipedia and I thought it was odd at first. Normally you would only need a few agents to serve a warrant. Maybe a few more if they were serving a warrant on a house that was "defended" or reinforced in some way.

But this wasn't a house, it was a compound with nearly two hundred people in it - 172 to be exact. Clearly you don't search a compound that houses 170 people in it with four agents.

The local sheriff seized the firearms? And deemed them all legal? That's great. Fucking awesome. The reality is, no matter what, the ATF showed up with a warrant, legally allowing them to search the entire property. It doesn't matter if the sheriff was there the day before, it doesn't matter if they had no illegal weapons, all that matters is that they had a warrant, they were denied access, and started a gun battle. A simple matter of a search warrant turned into murder.