History of the ATF 2: Ruby Ridge and Waco

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our last video made the case that the ATF, while built to crack down on criminals, was actually set on a collision course with regular Americans. In this video, we document 50 years of its trajectory from Prohibition to the deadly sieges at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

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https://sandpointreader.com/stand-off-ruby-ridge-25-years-later-2/
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402060001-6.pdf
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0:00.0	Welcome back to the T-Rex Talk Spotify channel. We're going to be posting some of the history of the ATF videos on here,
0:07.1	which are technically a YouTube video series. So if you really want the best quality video, you can go somewhere else.
0:13.9	But if you want to listen to this on your phone, this is the way to do it. And as soon as we get through shot show planning and other stuff, we're going to go back to more dedicated podcasts.
0:22.6	But this is kind of hybrid podcast video content. So hopefully it's helpful to have it up here for you.
0:33.6	Welcome back to our very special and extremely encouraging video series.
0:42.8	In the last video we talked about the disastrous experiment that was prohibition and the
0:48.7	tyrannically overpowered National Firearms Act, which set the ATF on a crash course with radical top-down authoritarianism.
0:57.0	Now at this point in the series, one question that you are probably asking is, how did we go as a country,
1:05.0	from completely unrestricted firearm availability in mail order rifles in the 1920s to a government proposal to confiscate all
1:13.2	semi-automatic weapons and all handguns. Why was there this craze for centralized government
1:19.5	power in the 1930s? It seems just very much out of step with the immediate preceding American
1:26.7	time frame and even the American values that we claim to hold to today.
1:31.3	Well, at the time, kind of everybody was doing it.
1:35.3	All the cool European countries that were advanced and modern and industrialized and scientifically organized were handing down not just new laws and prohibitions,
1:45.5	but very specific dictates on how things should be run.
1:49.5	Busting the big businessmen who might object, and also disarming the little guys, you know, just in case they might stand in the way.
1:56.7	Notable examples of this are obviously Russia, where we have Soviet commissars disarming the people after the Russian Revolution,
2:04.6	and then there's also that famous 1928 German Weapons Act, which imposed strict permits and record keeping for the few who were allowed to keep these small arms.
2:16.6	This was a trend to diminish the citizens and elevate the state.
2:22.3	The idea being that we would get onto this new, utopic, planned economy track.
2:27.3	Somehow the state was going to use its omniscience to know exactly what people should be doing,
2:32.3	and then its omnipotence to get them to do them,
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