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Posted on 10/30/2026 4:59:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ot the least of Donald Trump’s achievements is his successful effort to disarm federal government agencies.
Since the turn of the century – and probably much longer – there has been a tendency by federal agencies to create their own private SWAT teams, equipped with everything from Humvees to armored vehicles and armed with military-grade automatic weapons. While some of these made a minimal kind of sense (the Bureau of Land Management has had problems with marijuana cultivators and the Bureau of Indian Affairs has memories of the deadly 1973 Wounded Knee confrontation), most didn’t. One of the more puzzling involved the Internal Revenue Service.
No one has ever quite explained exactly what the IRS was doing with the massive armory it acquired. Over the past twenty years, the IRS spent over $35 million on firearms and related hardware. These guns included Smith and Wesson M&P-15 AR-15 platform rifles, Heckler and Koch HK 416 rifles, Beretta 1301 tactical shotguns, and Remington 870 Police model shotguns (no cheap Mossbergs for these guys). The purchases also included body armor and ballistic shields. As far as anybody knows, the IRS didn’t possess any armored cars or other tactical vehicles.
But the spending really ramped up under Joe Biden (I know, who would ever have guessed?) In short order, $474,000 was spent on S&W M&P-15s, $463,000 on Beretta shotguns, and $2.5 million on various types of armor. By 2019, the IRS had 4500 guns and a jaw-dropping five million rounds of ammunition. But as the 2020s opened, the agency spent another $10 million on firearms and related items.
It was the vast ammunition purchases that caused the most disquiet among the public, particularly since this came at the same time that Biden provided the agency with $80 billion to hire 87,000 new agents
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Why does The Department of Education need a SWAT team?
“Why does The Department of Education need a SWAT team?”
Homeschoolers?
To make sure you have no say when they turn your 12 year old boy into a girl.
In case some parent complains that the school transed their child without even notifying the parents.
I voted for this!
What are they doing with the stuff they already bought? Yard Sale?
Why does the federal government need a department of education?
The reloaders responded and within a year, the market for components was in the same shape. Powder, primers, even popular projectiles became unobtainable. I will never get caught-out on this crap again.
Those existing IRS arms and ammunition should go to LE, NOT Brownshirts.
“Why does The Department of Education need a SWAT team?”
Pretty obvious - when a teacher who actually wants to educate kids slips through their massive firewall preventing just that.
They talk about Biden (or his handlers) arming the government, but who here remembers the Obama administration ordering hundreds of millions of rounds for all sorts of agencies, including NOAA?
Force all of them to get rid of all of it. They are not a law enforcement agency. They don’t need their own mini armies.
Better still, force them to auction all of those weapons, ammo and gear off to the public.
They are scared of the public. They should be.
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