Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

The Final Assault

In the early morning of April 19, 1993, the FBI fired 40-millimeter CS grenade from M79 rocket launchers and two military M651 rounds at the Branch Davidian construction site. After running low on tear gas rounds, they requested for more which was given to them. However, as it turns out, the rounds were unstable pyrotechnic rounds. However, after six hours of shooting tear gas into the building, no Branch Davidians had come out of the building and were either hiding in a cinder block room or using gas masks. Their plan wasn’t working out.

Then, the unthinkable happened.