The ATF was in crisis. The agency needed a big bust to continue to be relevant. They found out that Branch Dividians were sending away for (legal) brochures that illustrated restoring junk WW2 weapons. That was the basis of the search warrant and it was bogus. No WW2 weapons either restored or unrestored were ever recovered after about 80 men women and children were incinerated by the poison gas carrier which was as combustable as laquor thinner.