It was twenty years ago today...

[glatt]

I'm not interesting in getting into an argument, but Wikipedia says:

The Branch Davidians were well armed with small arms,[97][98] possessing 305 total firearms, including numerous rifles (semi-automatic AK-47s and AR-15s), shotguns, revolvers and pistols;[64][69][99] 2 .50 caliber weapons with armor-piercing ammunition and 46 semi-automatic firearms modified to fire in full automatic mode (included on above list): 22 M16, 20 AK-47, 2 HK SP-89, 2 M-11/Nine[69][99] (Texas Rangers do not report the M16s but report "at least 16 AR-15 rifles"),[64] the AR-15 being a semi-automatic version of the M16); 2 AR-15 lower receivers also modified to fire in full automatic mode;[99] 39 "full auto sears" devices used to convert semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons; parts for fully automatic AK-47 and M16 rifles; 30-round magazines and 100-round magazines for M16 and AK-47 rifles; pouches to carry large ammunition magazines; substantial quantities of ammunition of various sizes.

Sounds like there were a lot of weapons in there, including many fully automatic machine guns.

[IamSam]

My, how time flies when you're waiting for the apocalypse! I don't believe there was ever much question that the Branch Dravidians were heavily armed and all set to "throw down with violence the great City of Babylon."

The show down with those religous nuts who insisted on including their own children in their little war was also the precursor to the horrific Oklahoma City bombing where all those poor kids in the daycare center located in the Federal Building were killed.

Twenty years later and things have scarcely improved with the deaths of those 20 babies in Newtown. How long must this slaughter of the innocents at the altar of the Second Amendment continue?