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During this time, organized crime was born out of the need to have a unified chain of alcohol manufacturers and smugglers. Prohibition lasted thirteen years until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933. In 1934, the National Firearms Act was passed in response to the massive amounts of weapons that organized crime used during prohibition. It was a tax on firearms and it fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of Revenue. .
             The Gun Control Act of 1968 marked the formation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) as we know it today, both regulating and enforcing laws dealing not only with alcohol, tobacco and firearms, but explosives as well. They also support and assist all levels of domestic and international law enforcement when called upon to do so. ATF is responsible for developing the first Integrated Ballistics Identification System that is a computer program that can match the weapon to the ammunition that is fired from it. ATF collects an estimated thirteen billion dollars annually from the taxes on related industries.
             The Mission and Philosophy of the ATF.
             The ATF is a branch of the Department of Justice that prides itself on high standard and integrity and is specifically dedicated to reducing violent crime and protecting the public through close partnerships with other branches of law enforcement. The main goals of the ATF are containment and prevention of crimes by enforcing rules and regulation, and by working with communities all across the country. They aim to make the revenue collection they oversee as fair and suitable as is possible and to make sure the regulations set for the industries they serve as reasonable and efficient as can be. ATF will assist all forms of law enforcement whenever necessary and will also provide the needed training to make regulators and investigators well equipped to curb criminal acts and keep businesses operating legally.


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1. Gun Control and Protecting Ourselves

... people because they tend to openly carry guns, are actually the people who want to have a better control on the gun policies. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), often working with state and local law enforcement, investigates criminal firearms trafficking, arrests perpetrators, and makes referrals to U.S. Attorneys for prosecution. Unfortunately, there are some major obstacles that hinder law ... should be necessary to ensure that the legal firearms supply is secure from criminals. In an April 2013 report, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspec...

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2. Gun Control

... dedicated to stopping gun violence. CSGV maintains a library on the gun industry and violence research. (CSGV at http://www.gunfree.internect/csgv/) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reports indicates there were over 211,000,000 firearms privately owned in the United States in 1991, and approximately 70,666,000 were handguns.(http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus ... Since 1989 gun manufactures/importers introduced an average of 3.5 million new guns into the United States market alone. (CSGV at http://www.gunfree.internect/csgv/ & ATF June 29, 1994; U.S. Firearms Produc...

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3. The Mongols Motorcycle Club

... in late February 1998, Carly Hudson, Erika Allison and Daniel Booher were contacted by Special Agent John Ciccone of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) of the Los Angeles division Group II. With us was Special Agent William Queen. Ciccone knew that Queen had been hanging around the Hell's Angels gathering intelligence for ... The application is worse than trying to get into the military. The Mongols wanted to know everything about you. It was necessary at this time to get the ATF and Ciccone involved for my cover. People had to pretend to be our family, teache...

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4. Marijuana Dispensaries

... Registry. Although it has been legalized there are very strict rules that must be followed because breaking certain rules is still a federal offense. Ultimately, medicinal Marijuana is regulated by the ATF. In Colorado anyone can use Marijuana for medicinal purposes as long as they posses a medical Marijuana card and buy the marijuana from a medical dispensary. The Colorado Department of Health and ... is a strain that everyone loves the ability to keep it in stock becomes harder but at the same time the price goes up. Another consideration is that the state and ATF only allow dispensar...

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5. Waco Branch Davidian Disaster

... acquitted and a mistrial was declared in Koresh's case (Find Law). By 1990, Koresh had become the leader of the Branch Davidians and legally changed his name (PBS). On February 28th, ATF agents raided Branch Davidian compound searching for illegal weapons. Gunfight erupted killing 4 ATF agents and wounding 16 others. An undetermined number of Davidians were killed and injured. David Koresh was wounded ... . ATF agents withdrew to safety and prepared for a siege. FBI called in negotiators and the Hostage Rescue Team. On March 12th, electricity to the compound was cut off despite objection...

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6. Gun Control

... a limitation can be placed on the age of the individual purchasing the gun. Currently, the United States allows only those 21 years of age and older to purchase a firearm (ATF online). By checking the criminal and mental history of an individual, one can be restricted if their history suggests that they will improperly use of the firearm. A suspicious history includes ... • Subject to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; • Convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence (ATF online). ...

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7. Waco Tragedy

... to him" (Bonfante, Lacayo 3). David Koresh and compound members "had been under investigation for 10 months because of evidence he was building a huge stockpile of illegal weapons" (Popkin, Rainie 2). The ATF, "the bureau [which] is responsible of reducing both the criminal use of firearms and trafficking on illegal firearms and explosives" (Nayhan 11) tried to arrest David Koresh. The first day ... n the other" (Popkin, Rainie 2). When federal and state law-enforcement officials "concluded that cult members were stockpiling guns and preparing to make legal semiautomatics into illegal a...

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8. Legal Case: The Mongols Motorcycle Club

... enforcement involving drug dealing, money laundering, robbery, extortion, firearm violations, murder, and assault among others. There have been two successful infiltrations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) undercover agents becoming fully patched members; gathering evidence against them and successfully convicting them of the charges against them. The most successful and controversial infiltration, Operation Black Rain occurred in ... members to wear their jackets with the logo of the club is in violation of their rights, (Rivera v. Melson). This has crea...

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9. Guns

... up less than 1 percent of privately owned firearms in the U.S., they have been traced to from 4 percent to 9 percent of firearms crimes over the past six years, according to the ATF. An even more alarming fact is that assault weapons were the firearms most commonly traced for organized crime and drug trafficking offenses. Assault weapons are designed primarily for military or ... a must to keep the violence down. On the other hand, many legally licensed gun dealers are also corrupt. In 1994, more than half of the crime guns traced by the ATF came from federally licensed firearms dealers...

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  • Grade Level: High School

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