1992
August 21–22:
Federal law enforcement agents surround the home of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to arrest him on weapons charges. During a gun battle that lasts two days, Weaver's fourteen-year-old son and wife are killed as well as a U.S. marshal. A criminal investigation into the shooting leads to dismissal of the weapons charges against Weaver due to entrapment, and the U.S. Justice Department is ordered to pay him $3.1 million in compensation for the deaths of his family members.

1993
February 28
: Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) surround the compound of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, to arrest its leader, David Koresh, on weapons charges and to serve a search warrant. Someone fires a shot, and during the following gun battle, six Davidians and four ATF agents are killed. The FBI takes charge and begins a fifty-one-day siege of the...