The ATF is responsible for seeing that taxes are paid on certain types of guns and enforcing federal gun laws.

Why would these allegations be included in an application to search for weapons violations.

The ATF has no authority to investigate child abuse or polygamy.

And these allegations were investigated by the Texas Welfare Department and the McLennan County Sheriff's

Department in 1991 and 1992 and were found to be baseless.

Parts of the search warrant affidavit by Agent Aguilera were false. Here, Agent

Agelira refers to Shotgun News, a national newspaper with a

circulation of 150,000 that is sold at new stands all over the country.

He calls it a clandestine newspaper.

The affidavit describes how an undercover agent

had observed the upper and lower receivers of disassembled

AK-47s. The AK-47 has a one-piece receiver. There are no separate upper and lower receivers on an AK-47.

Obviously, Agent Agalira didn't have a clue,

and Magistrate Green failed to notice.

Agent Agalira also stated that a neighbor heard machine gun fire, but he didn't state

that the McLennan County Sheriff had already investigated this claim and found that David

Korez had a legal device called a hellfire trigger that merely sounds like a machine gun, but is perfectly legal.

Machine gun fire in itself is not evidence of illegal activity.

It is legal to own a machine gun if the owner pays a $200 tax on the gun.

But there was no evidence the Branch Davidians owned any machine gun at all.

So, bottom line, the raid on February 28, 1993 was launched because the ATF merely

suspected that the Branch Davidians might have a machine gun that they had failed to pay a $200 tax on.

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