Branch Davidians Research Paper

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The Branch Davidians were a religious group who were based in Waco Texas. They got many reports that they had violated to firearms regulations, which led for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to got information that they were engaged that the Branch Davidians were stockpiling and holding machine gun, they were illegally doing this so then the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms get involved with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. On february 28 1993 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms got an arrest warrant for David Koresh; who was one of the current leader of the Branch Davidians at the time. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also got a search warrant for the Mount Carmel compound outside of Waco Texas, as they wanted to search the compound to find the illegal weapons they were holding to be able to arrest the whole Branch Davidian group. …show more content…

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents arrived there was a two hour open fire battle between the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Branch Davidians, it ended with four agents being killed and more than twelve injured and six Davidians reportedly dead. This event then led to the waco siege, a fifty-one day standoff between the agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Branch Davidians. The Standoff ended on April 19 1993 because of a big fire that broke out after the Federal Bureau of Investigation used gas in attempt to break into the compound, or to make the Branch Davidians surrender or just to get them out of the building so the agents are able to arrest them but that never happened. There was fire that broke out which then cause about seventy- five deaths and one of those people being David Koresh. Only seven people inside

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