“ Controversy in the 1990s also emerged when it was discovered the Church Universal and Triumphant was amassing a very large cache of weapons. This discovery seemed to be at odds with the Church Universal and Triumphant’s message to outsiders as a place of peace and harmony. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies subsequently investigated this area and found the Church Universal and Triumphant’s Leaders to have been complicit in obtaining and hoarding these dangerous weapons.
