ATF

• 1791 first tax on whiskey
• 1792 ATF Began under Internal Revenue
• 1862 Bureau of Internal Revenue
• 1919 Prohibition
• 1927 became Prohibition Unit
  – Bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
  – new mission of crime fighting
• 1930 transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice
• 1933 prohibition ended
• 1933 Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU)
  – of the Internal Revenue Service
  –  U.S. Department of the Treasury
• 1951 Bureau of Internal Revenue became the Internal Revenue Service
  – ATU absorbed the Miscellaneous Tax Unit
  – responsible for collecting taxes on tobacco
  – regulatory provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934
• 1952  Internal Revenue Service consolidated internal enforcement as the “Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division”
• 1960s Moonshine
• 1968 Omnibus Crime Control Act & Gun Control Act (GCA)
  – jurisdiction over destructive devices
• 1970 Organized Crime Control Act
• 1971 became the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
• 1972 became independent Bureau
  – reports directly to the U.S. Department
• 1970s investigation of illicit alcohol, to crimes involving firearms, explosives, and arson
• 1992 Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas