AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald ; Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis ... Davidians' Mount Carmel compound burns to the ground during the 1993 raid by the ATF outside of Waco, Texas.

In 1993, an incident that would shape occurred involving David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian sect, who resided on a ranch near Waco, Texas. Koresh had amassed a substantial arsenal of ...

In February 1993, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) descended on the Branch Davidians’ compound outside of Waco, Texas, ready to raid their property for ...