REALLY BIG GUNS: EVEN BIGGER LIES - Violence Policy Center

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Two Burned-Out Barrett M82A1 .50BMG
Sniper Rifles (foreground and upper left)
Photographed in 1995 at Texas Ranger
Compound Holding Evidence From Branch
Davidian Ranch.
Photo by Author During Bi-Partisan Congressional
Investigation.
Finally, in 1993, The Dallas Morning News reported in detail the chain of
transfers that put at least one of the Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifles into the hands of
David Koresh, and quoted a Barrett spokesman discussing the difficulty of converting
the rifle to automatic fire. 109
No doubt FCI could construct a theory of a conspiracy so vast that it has
extended over a decade and includes such improbable joint actors as The Dallas
Morning News, the Violence Policy Center, the Independence Institute’s David Kopel,
the National Rifle Association’s Paul Blackman, the Texas Rangers, the U.S.
Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Congress, and
a host of supporting players, all conspiring in common to invent the presence of the
Barrett .50BMG anti-armor sniper rifles at the Branch Davidian compound. That theory
would be no more credible than the rest of FCI’s desperate inventions.