Posted on 06/17/2023 6:28:43 AM PDT by old school
"In an unprecedented move, twenty armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents carried out a raid on a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, seizing all Form 4473s – documents that record buyer’s information during firearms transactions."
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
They could all be veteran agents just as easily and much more probable.
It's not like they haven't had agents around for decades.
They just need more of them...suddenly...in an economic downturn.
The 4473 will identify the purchaser and the firearm purchased, right down to the serial number. What it will not do is say how much the firearm sold for.
There is no imaginable reason the IRS would need or be able to use that information. This may be just because the BATF is not allowed to build a database of gun owners, so the IRS is doing it instead.
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