Word: atf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Randall Weaver Case, offers a spirited defense of the controversial NRA fundraising letter which called some agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "jack-booted thugs."("Those comments were referring to those specific cases where lives were lost or there was damage because of the ATF," he says). On abortion, Campbell says the debate is between those who put "self-interest" first versus those who believe in moral principles...
...insatiable quest for new members and more money, is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "That was no apology," says Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "LaPierre can't get off the hook by saying, 'Oops, I was really only talking about atf. Law enforcement is a family, and when you attack one member, you attack...
...blink of an eye, ATF agents found a piece of blown-away truck axle. In what seemed just moments later, Timothy McVeigh was in police custody. The first hours and days after the Oklahoma City bombing convinced many that justice would be swiftly done. Then real-life rhythms took over. Nearly three weeks after the blast, John Doe No. 2 is still at large, and the immensity of the task facing the feds has sunk in. "It's now down to basic investigation and luck," one official admitted. Said another federal lawman: "I think we may be a year putting...
...authorities continue to rely on tips pouring in to the FBI hot line at the rate of around 1,100 a day. "The American people are going to solve this case for us," says a top FBI man. With the help, that is, of more than 500 FBI, ATF and Customs agents, and police officers on the case in Oklahoma City, thousands of others who have been running down leads across the nation, support staff and lab technicians, and officials still on alert at the borders...
...minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet anarchists who like to shop for such products as laser sights, camouflage, fake badges and fake fbi and atf hats. Some of their most popular offerings are "burn-and-blow'' books that describe in detail how to make landmines, booby traps and bombs. "The information is available on the Internet and everywhere else," says retired atf agent Al Gleason, who spent 50 years investigating bombings. "People who feel that...