Originally authored by our site sponsor http://Ammo.com, this is the story of the Waco Standoff that began 27 years ago today. It is a perfect illustration of what an overbearing and over-militarized bureaucratic state is willing to do to those it disagrees with and directly led to the Oklahoma City bombing. With gun control on the march and an ever-ballooning federal government, it’s your job to be ready.

The siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is an important event in American history because it directly led to one of the biggest terrorist attacks on American soil – the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. It’s not necessary to defend this act of terrorism to understand why the entire freedom movement of the time was so incensed by it. Indeed, it stood as a symbol of federal overreach and the corruption of the Clinton Administration.

It’s important to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the siege of Waco, just as it is important to do so with the siege of Ruby Ridge or the attack on the American consolate in Benghazi. With every event, it is important to stick to the facts and what can be extrapolated from them to make the strongest argument about what went wrong and why, and what could be done differently in the future.