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Armed IRS Agents Shut Down Montana Gun Store in a 'Soviet-style Intimidation' Raid
Townhall.com ^ | June 17, 2023 11:55 PM | Matt Vespa |

Posted on 06/18/2023 5:09:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The liberal media’s echo chamber will work overtime to drown out these stories. They attempted to gaslight us on gas stoves. However, that pales compared to the Russian collusion hoax and how the Department of Justice has become the Democratic National Committee’s Stasi force.

The FBI is out of control, engaging in censorship schemes with social media companies, procuring illegal wiretap warrants, and seems hell-bent on protecting the Biden family even after their sources have compiled incriminating evidence of corruption. So, it’s not far-fetched to hear federal agents raided a Montana gun store, shut it down, and seized sensitive documents about private citizens (via The Blaze):

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) is demanding answers after he says a group of armed IRS agents raided and temporarily closed a Montana gun shop in Great Falls Wednesday.

"This event is another example of President Biden weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hardworking Americans for exercising their constitutional rights," Rosendale said in a letter to leaders of the Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Twenty heavily armed federal agents pulled in behind Highwood Creek Outfitters' owner Tom Van Hoose as he arrived at his shop Wednesday morning, KRTV reported.

IRS agents confiscated background check forms from the store that contained sensitive personal information about all customers who ever purchased a gun at the shop. The forms do not include financial information, Rosendale said, calling the act an "egregious breach of privacy" that "showed no regard for federal law."

"There is no circumstance in which 4473s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS," Rosendale said in a letter addressed to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; gestapo; guns; irs; montana; raid
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1 posted on 06/18/2023 5:09:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

time to wake up and smell the coffee...it has arrived

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/16/domestic-threats-to-american-freedom-are-coming-to/


2 posted on 06/18/2023 5:11:37 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who are the agents?

Where do they live?

Who are their wives?


3 posted on 06/18/2023 5:11:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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4 posted on 06/18/2023 5:14:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: bert

Time to make some of these agents talk.
Waterboard??????


5 posted on 06/18/2023 5:14:49 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: mo

Bkmk


6 posted on 06/18/2023 5:18:55 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gosh with Biden in charge things are going so well


7 posted on 06/18/2023 5:22:41 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hate to ruin your Sunday, folks, it would have been nice if some politician could have saved us and saved us the trouble but…it’s time to start thinking about giving these animals the fight they’re out there actively looking for.


8 posted on 06/18/2023 5:25:00 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack

That’s exactly what they want.

Then they can start filling the “FEMA” camps with “insurrectionists.”


9 posted on 06/18/2023 5:26:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Its called forced population control, Nazis started it in the 1930’s and were very successful.


10 posted on 06/18/2023 5:31:37 AM PDT by chopperk ( C)
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To: TalBlack

McCarthy shut this down as part of the debt limit deal, right?


11 posted on 06/18/2023 5:31:59 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: chopperk

12 posted on 06/18/2023 5:34:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ARMED IRS agents shut down a gun store.

Just think about the incoherence of that statement.


13 posted on 06/18/2023 5:50:50 AM PDT by oldbill
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Truly lousy reporting. What were they after? What did they take? Did they show a warrant? Who were the witnesses? What is the importance (to the store and to purchasors) of the data sequestered? What does the local FBI have to say for itself? What does HQ? What is the justification for the use of a squad of FBI?


14 posted on 06/18/2023 6:05:43 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats are doing to us.


15 posted on 06/18/2023 6:23:36 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: stinkerpot65

Step by step.


16 posted on 06/18/2023 6:29:01 AM PDT by sport
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My understanding was the ATF has been illegally collecting and digitizing 4473s for years already.

Maybe this is not true. Or maybe they’re just resorting to crude intimidation tactics now.


17 posted on 06/18/2023 6:39:07 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Oh, it’s true. They have been collecting an illegal database of gunowners for years.


18 posted on 06/18/2023 6:39:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: TalBlack
That is not going to happen, TalBlack. When the time comes, the serf will open the doors to the gas chambers and walk in of their own accord. The Covid 19 scam proved conclusively that the biggest majority of the sheep will believe with question any and everything the Government tells them without questioning it. And will blindly obey any edict issued by the Government. The few rebels will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

From the viewpoint of the Government, the Covid 19 scam succeeded far beyond their wildest expectations. They [the Government ] learned everything they needed to know regarding the behavior of the peasants. Now they are just waiting for the time to implement the lessons they learned.

19 posted on 06/18/2023 6:44:41 AM PDT by sport
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To: stinkerpot65

And what the Jews did when the Nazis did those things is exactly what we’re doing. NOTHING.


20 posted on 06/18/2023 7:19:05 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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