ATF Vehicle Sighting

[Paul Revere]

Had an opportunity to closely observe an ATF truck while driving on the highway yesterday. Actually it stuck out like a sore thumb. I wanted to see if anyone else has been seeing these things in their area.

The truck I saw was a cross between a very large armored truck and an ambulance. It was white and had alot of signage indicating that it was "ATF" as well as said something like "Bomb and Fire Investigation Unit". It also said on the side, "Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms". The truck looked like it was brand new, and most likely cost us taxpayers a pretty penny. Who knows what was inside the vehicle. The driver was a white male, maybe in his thirties wearing a dark blue shirt.

It certainly could have been armored. The glass in the cab looked to be bulletproof. More than likely it was traveling back to one of their district offices to be garaged. The rear enclosed cargo area of the truck (which was very much like an armored car) could have easily held a platoon of soldiers.

Feedback appreciated.

 

[proximo]

I saw one of these parked in an official lot at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival about 5 years ago. It also said something about Bomb Investigation on the side.

 

[Satanta]

didn't look like this did they?

No...wait...you said ATF...sorry. Wrong conspiracy theory.
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/unvehpict/home.htm
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/whiteunbus2.htm

 

[Art Eatman]

Funny how times change. In the '60s, the BATF field agents I met from time to time in the gun stores were good guys. Most were ex-street cops, with lots of experience and common sense. I met two who thought the GCA of 1968 was garbage.

BATF earned a reputation as the premier group in dealing with explosive devices, whether disarming or doing forensic investigations. SFAIK, they're still the best.

It was not until the upper echelons of their bureaucracy became infested with anti-gun individuals that the atmosphere changed. The only hope to reclaim it as an appropriate entity to target illegal traffickers in guns, etc., is to get a Bush as president, who--I hope--could be influenced to put a pro-Constitutionalist type in charge.

Having mature adults in charge would be a positive change. There was no rational need for the initial subornation of Randy Weaver by the ATF agents; there was no rational need for the assault-type raid at Waco. This is the sort of things dreamed up by small-minded children.

Art

 

[deanf]

Well the BATF does do arson investigation, and because they're feds, they're relatively well funded, so they have toys.

I guess I'm not really opposed to the BATF doing arson investigation, although arson investigation is really only the purview of the states.

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"Anyone feel like saluting the flag which the strutting ATF and FBI gleefully raised over the smoldering crematorium of Waco, back in April of ‘93?" -Vin Suprynowicz

[This message has been edited by deanf (edited August 17, 2000).]