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Posted on 02/03/2010 6:41:12 AM PST by Leisler
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
(Excerpt) Read more at fbo.gov ...
I’m not sure this is unusual.
The IRS has security personnel, and dedicated Marshals and Agents that are intended to protect IRS Revenue Officers during contentious activities, or activities with particularly belligerent tax debtors. It is my understanding that it is not completely unusual for a Revenue Officer to meet with some resistance.
It is within the IRS’s authority to seize property for failure to pay large tax debts (sometimes it is justified) — and the IRS won’t send some poor accountant by himself to seize a house ... they’ll send him with armed escorts. Whether the weapons are provided by the IRS, or whether those personnel are typically employed by the US Marshals or FBI, I don’t know. I would figure at least some of the personnel are employed by the IRS.
SnakeDoc
Why must the IRS exist?
From a decade ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.usa.misc/browse_thread/thread/89bc92a954f94133/e6fc95666898fcff?hl=en&q=irssic
The same old question. To be or not to be..
Most folks who have not worked with a Long arm in vehicles don't really understand. Its why the M4 currently is below optimum barrel length for best ballistics. Same for shorter barrel shotguns, but it doesn't matter so much since a shotgun is trash past 100 yards anyway (and iffy at 100).
Given the choice between a short barreled shotgun or a machine pistol or carbine; I will take the shotgun any day. Total length should not be over 28 to 30 inches (go sideways through a standard inside door) and have a magazine that goes to the end of the barrel. You can do this with an 18 inch barrel but you have to short the stock. A 14 inch barrel lets you full stock the gun (a must with a 10 or 12 gauge) and still keep the overall length down.
MY 2 cents.
Check out this article I got from my BIL earlier today.
Another reason for the FairTax.
Actually you can buy one for just a $5 tax stamp. But then you are listed as an “AOW” owner with the feds.
True enough. However, there will still be irresponsible boneheads that don’t pay-up on the fair tax.
I work in tax law, and most of my Clients aren’t rich people that didn’t pay their 36% ...
— they’re regular Joe’s who haven’t filed in 10-years and thought the law didn’t apply to them;
— they’re self-employed people that didn’t withhold at all, and haven’t paid a nickel in a decade or so;
— they’re business owners that withheld taxes from their employees paychecks, and then neglected to forward the money to the IRS (that’s a good way to get a quick bank account seizure, by the way).
There will always have to be involuntary collection channels for non-compliance ... even under the fair tax.
SnakeDoc
Uzis in shopping bags.
Yeah, but are they going to use steel shot on me? I wouldn’t want some buzzard to die of lead poisoning feasting on my rotting corpse.
“...Vice sure had some interesting firearms at times.”
Thank Michael Mann. Guy does great research. David Mamet (The Unit, Spartan, Ronin, House of Games, etc.) is another one who does the right thing.
If we could just get the Foley artists (sound guys who do footsteps, breaking necks, etc.) to not add the sound of a revolver being cocked when an actor rips a glock or sig out of their holsters.
Crocket carried a Bren 10!
The business end of "liberal compassion".
O.K....I’ll buy a cannon!
Well said sir.
All inscribed with, “All your money are belong to us.”
Yeah, they damn sure wouldn’t have bible verses stamped into them.
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