This essay will provide a brief history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agency, organizational structure and notable accomplishments of the members of this elite force and how their focus relates to public safety. The agency has been around for hundreds of years first getting its start around 1862 under the Department of Treasury. Almost a decade earlier Congress started to enforce and impost taxes on imported alcohol to pay for a war debt incurred by the Revolutionary War, not long after that domestic alcohol started to be taxed causing riots among the people. Taxes had to be enforced so revenue districts were put in place in all the fourteen colonies. In each district office, there was a Supervisor,
