Did anyone ever see one of those illegal machine guns from Waco?
That three sentence paragraph turns the Waco incident exactly around. How many alive now have never heard of Waco before, and get their first recounting here?
Interstingly, NO.
The “test-firing” did not do wel, I heard.
Funny how the NRA and I see it exactly the same way, and for that they get a fair amount of my earnings every year. Three hundred million people are documented to have been killed by governments, including one hundred million during the last century, after governments really learned how to be efficient at it. I'm sure that was just an anomaly, and won't be repeated. The Iranian protesters have nothing to fear from the Achmedinajad government.
There was a wave of right-wing craziness along those lines during the Clinton administration. Four federal agents were killed and 16 others wounded in 1993 during an attempt to serve a search warrant at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., where a stockpile of illegal machine guns had been amassed.
What were David Koresh's political leanings? Can you, the intellectually superior NYT editorial writers, cite even ONE item that made Mr. Koresh a "right winger", other than being religious and owning guns? I'll just wait right here.
The subsequent siege ended disastrously with a raging fire in which scores of people were killed.
And WHO was RESPONSIBLE for that fire, liberal fascist M@THERF@CKERS??? You'll never hear that from the NYT. It's gotten to the point that slapping around the ignorant liberal peckerwoods from the NYT isn't even sport any more. You could program a computer to write their editorials, since they're pretty much all the same regurgitated crap with no actual critical thought put into them.
Did anyone ever see one of those illegal machine guns from Waco?
You, Mr. Swampsniper, make an excellent point, one of the ones that I was going to make. The NRA hired a failure analysis company to look at the guns to determine whether or not they had been illegally converted. "Senator" Schumer stopped it cold, and had the guns locked away. To my knowledge, it has never been established that even ONE of the guns was illegally converted. But, as you know, once it passes into the liberal mythosphere, it's fact forever after.
I realize you're speaking to the Mt.Carmel incident but, did you know Waco, back durng Prohibition, was a major center for the manufacture of illegal weapons/
That depends on exactly what you mean...
If you dig back far enough on this site you will find a government distributed picture of an AK variant with factory new wood furniture that was supposedly pulled from the fire.
Your nick suggests that this is a good question for you to ponder:
Now riddle me this BATFman...If the church members had access to the point blank full auto sheetrock penetrating lethality of a milspec AK (presumably milsurp ammo), then why did the Davidians use their nonpenetrating bullet fragmenting relatively short barreled incompatible twist rate/grain weight combination AR-15s during the seige?
I saw the video about Waco. Changed my thinking. About a whole host of things.