After being repulsed, BATF joins with FBI to siege the group, ultimately burning over seventy men, women and children to death, then destroying evidence of their crimes. The ACLU, NRA and other organizations call for a national commission to investigate abuses by federal law enforcement officers and recommend limits on federal police powers. Ohio man BATF raids home of gun collector for supposedly falsifying forms. Agent roughs up three-month pregnant wife, who has miscarriage. Judge throws trumped-up charges out of court.
Agents kill three pet cats.
For the politically incorrect act of carrying a gun at home, police kick in the door of disabled veteran John Lekan. Lekan defends himself, shooting a police officer. After three days of siege, the bodies of Lekan and his son are removed from the remains of his house. Although quick to respond to private citizens supposedly keeping bad records, the BATF merely erased all record of over a hundred guns not found in one of their own inventories.