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The IRS Is Looking For 60 12-Gauge Pump Actions Guns To Arm Its Investigators
The Business Insider ^ | 2-3-2010 | Courtney Comstock

Posted on 02/03/2010 11:02:07 AM PST by blam

The IRS Is Looking For 60 12-Gauge Pump Actions Guns To Arm Its Investigators

Courtney Comstock
Feb. 3, 2010, 12:56 PM

Working for the IRS doesn't sound so wimpy anymore.

The IRS apparently has plans to buy 60 Remington Model 870 police 12 gauge pump action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Unit.

According to the federal business government website, these guns are serious.

The Remington parkerized shotguns come fully loaded with:

* A fourteen inch barrel
* Modified choke
* Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight
* XS4 Contour Bead front sight
* Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock
* Speedfeed ribbed black forend

We're not sure what kind of IRS duty requires this kind of combat artillery, but it sounds badass.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bho44; bhobanglist; bhoirs; irs; regulation; taxevasion
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To: corkoman

Two words: Castle Law


41 posted on 02/03/2010 11:57:50 AM PST by sniper63 (Bang,Bang, Maxwells Silver hammer........)
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To: blam

What the heck is that gas-piston driven, non-shotgun pictured with the article?


42 posted on 02/03/2010 11:59:00 AM PST by green iguana
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To: blam
Wasn't it one of Obama’s aides that said something glowing about Mao and “Power coming at the point of a gun?” As Al Capone once said, “You can get more out of people with a kind word...and a gun..., that with just a kind word.”

To think one of my childhood friends from Chicago once laughed at me when I asked if he knew any mobsters. He laughed so hard and said, “Do you think they walk around wearing signs?” Looking back, I'm beginning to think my naive question hit the mark more than was originally assessed.

43 posted on 02/03/2010 12:01:50 PM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: blam

I think this is the one.

http://www.remingtonle.com/shotguns/870tactical.htm


44 posted on 02/03/2010 12:04:49 PM PST by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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To: blam

Our overlords need the ability and firepower to murder us in front of or along with our families if we disagree with them.


45 posted on 02/03/2010 12:07:19 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: montomike

I’m sure the government got a special deal on this purchase. They probably only paid $20,000 apiece for these guns. What does the model 870 retail for $1200 or $1300?


46 posted on 02/03/2010 12:11:45 PM PST by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: TStro

Now that we’ve had 10 years of real war, I’d hope some of the interest by loopy wargameboy police folks would be diminished by marking to reality, and thus we’d see less Waco SWAT, less Columbine SWAT, and less EPA SWAT such as you saw. Less SWAT break-ins into the wrong house, etc. etc.


47 posted on 02/03/2010 12:12:00 PM PST by bvw
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To: blam

12 guage pumpguns. Big Deal. The irs does go after some pretty shady folks. But think back, how often does the irs publicize what weapons they are buying? This story came out for a reason. Probably as a veiled threat or as a diverson story about some real hardware they are buying.


48 posted on 02/03/2010 12:17:23 PM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: paul51
I guess these IRS agents aren't getting these shotguns for sporting clays recreation at Orvis Sandanona.
49 posted on 02/03/2010 12:22:16 PM PST by Mobties
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To: paul51

The IRS deals with the mob, probably gangs and money laundering operations. The perps are not small business operators but criminals who employ very violent people to protect their assets.

I do not have a problem with this at all.


50 posted on 02/03/2010 12:29:11 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: blam

51 posted on 02/03/2010 12:33:01 PM PST by fso301
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To: blam

Something doesn’t smell right here.


52 posted on 02/03/2010 12:41:15 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: texmexis best
I don't have a problem with the IRS having shotguns. I have a problem with the IRS existing. Shut it down. Throw the whole code in the dumpster and go to a national sales tax
53 posted on 02/03/2010 12:53:30 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: green iguana
What the heck is that gas-piston driven, non-shotgun pictured with the article?

Looks like Daewoo K2 rifles to me. Don't know what that would have to do with the IRS, though.

54 posted on 02/03/2010 1:06:38 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: blam
If you have to have a Knox Recoil Reducing stock, you shouldn't be carrying a 12 ga. shotgun.

Both Remington and Winchester make a "reduced recoil"/"law enforcement" 00 Buckshot round that will tear the He77 out of anyone that catches it. It is like shooting a low-brass upland bird round, but pretty much turns the contents of a thorax into one big mass of bloody pulp. I wouldn't have believed it possible for the round to do that if I hadn't seen a couple of autopsy photos to prove it.

Now, watch them put Sure-fire forearm lights on these 14" barreled shotguns and then wonder why they keep having trouble with their expensive forearm lights... There is a reason that many departments specify a 15" barrel, and that is one of them: 14" barrels shorten the life of the lights, where the 15" barrels cause no problems. On 14" barrels, the head of the flashlight is forward of the muzzle.

Of course, it really isn't about the performance of the weapon for these guys... They want all of these options because it increases the CDI factor of the shotgun.

Regards,
Raven6

PS: CDI stands for "chicks dig it."

55 posted on 02/03/2010 1:24:43 PM PST by Raven6 (The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.)
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To: Mobties

Remington 870 Express Specialty 12 Ga., 18”.

I think 14 in. is a typo. They’re not going to get special barrels for their Blitzkreigs.

tacticalgunarmory.com


56 posted on 02/03/2010 1:41:33 PM PST by gigster
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To: gigster

Oops.
I was wrong. Montomike has the right site.


57 posted on 02/03/2010 1:44:02 PM PST by gigster
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To: FLAMING DEATH
Didn’t they kill a guy at Ruby Ridge a few years back for selling one of these?

No, they killed his wife & dog because he didn't do the paperwork for making one of those. Fill out one form and pay the $200 tax and you're good to go.

Short shotguns are useful, esp. for indoor use where a >18" barrel gets kinda unwieldy.

58 posted on 02/03/2010 8:45:04 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Pelosi is practically President; the Obama is just her talk show host.)
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To: blam

WTH does that photo have to do with the article?


59 posted on 02/03/2010 8:46:13 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Pelosi is practically President; the Obama is just her talk show host.)
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