lot of people around me having babies, and, i mean, i knew that that meant my time was coming. >> kathy joneshusband, david, was okay with it. kathy was not. and she left. >> if i had stayed there, i would have had children by david koresh. that's when i really, really got scared. >> god is in control. >> over time koresh attracted a diverse group from as far away as australia, england, jamaica, the philippines. about 130 in all. >> trust god, read your bible, know what you're talking about. what are you doing with your life? what do you do every day with your life? is it something god approves of? >> the branch davidians supported themselves in part by buying guns to resell at gun shows. >> it's not against the law to buy a firearm. it's not against the law to buy anything that they sell at a gun show. >> but by 1993 the federal government believed koresh was illegally converting rifles into machine guns. armed with arrest and search warrants, 76 agents piled into two cattle trailers for a surprise raid. it would be the largest armed assault in the history of american law enforcement. [ fema