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...this week's story, Larson felt the first question that needed answering was simply: What is the ATF? "We all knew the image conjured by the N.R.A. of jackbooted fascists raiding the homes of innocents," he says. What Larson found instead was a deeply divided and demoralized bureaucracy...
...Getting ATF agents to open up about their lives and work required unusual tact and tenacity. "There was a great fear of retaliation by the ATF management," he says. After two months of travel, scores of interviews and a stack of documents piled knee high in his office, he delivered a penetrating look at an agency at war not with the militias but with itself...
THOUGH THE ATF IS THE PET DEMON OF THE MILITANT right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver...
...walk-in vault in his basement, expecting them one day to pay for the college educations of his son and his second child, whose birth he expected in seven months. One version of what happened next appeared in a recent full-page N.R.A. advertisement: "When shouting and cursing ATF agents rushed into his home to seize his firearms collection, they grabbed his pregnant wife Kim and shoved her into a wall. Within days she suffered a miscarriage." The Katona episode is one of the most vivid horror stories the N.R.A. has been telling lately in its campaign to pillory...
...agree to a moratorium on authorizing machine-gun purchases. Beran agreed. In August 1989 he wrote to Katona: "Dear Louis, I'm sorry, but I am not signing these forms any longer." Over the next two years, however, Katona kept buying machine guns and submitting the required forms to ATF, all apparently bearing the chief's signature...