Posted on 08/27/2023 9:06:03 AM PDT by Angelino97
A special agent with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is dead after being accidentally shot by another IRS agent during a training exercise Thursday at a federal gun range in Phoenix, officials confirmed.
On Friday, IRS officials identified the victim as 47-year-old Patrick Bauer, a longtime Arizona resident. He was a retired master sergeant with the Arizona Air National Guard and served with the 161st Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Squadron, the National Guard said in an email...
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirms that an incident occurred at their gun range, which multiple federal agencies were utilizing at the time through an interagency agreement. The spokesperson said no Federal Bureau of Prisons employees were injured in the incident...
Special agents with the FBI’s Phoenix field office are investigating the shooting. “The FBI’s investigation will be methodical and thorough to address every element of the incident,” an emailed statement said. Those findings will then be turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office (District of Arizona) for review.
The special agents involved in Thursday’s shooting were part of the IRS’s Criminal Investigations unit with the Phoenix Field Office.
Special agents with IRS-Criminal Investigations are the law enforcement branch of the IRS and are fully-sworn law enforcement officers who investigate violations of the Internal Revenue Code, including potential tax crimes, money laundering and some bank secrecy act violations.
According to the IRS, the Criminal Investigations Division is made up of 3,000 employees worldwide, with 2,100 of those being special agents.
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I don’t think you get promoted for that
Has to be a MAGA
Sure
This is like when Cheney shot the lawyer. No one is shedding any tears over it, except perhaps the family members of the victim.
Waiting for liberal calls to disarm the IRS, 3, 2, 1…
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Dang
“family members of the victim.”
There is a victim here?
Seriously?
Liberals? Why does the IRS need armed personnel?
A story with a happy ending. Condolences to the man’s family.
These are the 87,000 armed affirmative-action IRS agents FJB is hiring to target gig-workers.
When TSHTF we are going to cut through them like a hot knife through butter.
Curious about this as well.
Why do they need guns? They can ruin your life with the click of a mouse.
Knock, knock ...
It’s a start.
So much for their gun safety training class. Was the class in Spanish?
Again??? Seem to recall another case a few weeks ago.
All the makings of a coverup.
Armed tax collectors is the reason the United States came into existence.
Notice the shooter is unnamed. Why? Probably a woman.
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