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

The Search Warrant

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The ATF then obtained a search warrant based on the suspicion that the Davidians were modifying guns to have illegal automatic fire capabilities. Former Branch Davidian Marx Breault supported this notion after claiming that Koresh had managed to obtain M16 receiver parts. As described by the ATF, when combining M16 trigger components and modified AR15 lower receivers, it modifies the weapon to the point that it can be categorized as “constructive possession” of an unregistered machine gun. The ATF also attained arrest warrants for Koresh and other specific members on weapons charges and planned to do the search on or before February 28, 1993, as commanded by the warrant.