Posted on 12/29/2018 2:48:52 PM PST by rktman
The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.
Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 “fully automatic firearms” and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.
The same report--"Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammuntion, and Tactical Equipment"--says that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.
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Shhhhhhhh. We’re trying to stay un-noticed.
The gooberment needs to learn how to function off of tariff income only. Abolish the IRS!!
How bout maybe damn few for security. That agency DOES NOT need that many.
I agree. However based on current employee count 76.8k that’s 17 weapons per employee. A wee bit excessive
For comparison there are 3,142 counties/parishes/bouroughs in the 50 States and Washington, DC. That doesn’t include the 5 territories. So the IRS has just over one firearm per each county...
>>Bad enough, since the IRS really isn’t supposed to be doing its own shooting.
Almost every federal agency has some form of law enforcement. That is the FIRST thing I would shut down as President. If they want to stay in law enforcement, fine. Go to the border.
We need ONLY the FBI, the Secret Service (protective section only; counterfeiting can go FBI, and the Marshals. All other needs can be covered by the FBI. If the agencies want to hire security to protect their buildings or to prosecute their own staff, that’s fine, but they have no jurisdiction outside of that.
For all the rhetoric, Trump has been a severe disappointment in this and many other areas. This budget shutdown is nonsense. Close several federal departments (education, energy, interior, etc.) and build a wall from there. The press hates him anyway, so what difference does criticism make.
What are these guys worried about? Someone stealing food stamps? Maybe an invasion of flesh eating zombies?
The EPA feels it needs silencers. I wonder why.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
IRS is a criminal organization. They operate outside US constitution under administrative law. They don’t deserve a BB gun.
Trump should sell all the guns and ammo to the people to help with funding government during shutdown. The government could sell off quite a few assets and land and build the wall.
Naw....now remember to pay on time you lowly serfs. < / sarc >
BTW you should see the arsenal the EPA has.
Did you mean 1 gun per 17 employees?
There were maybe 4 guys out front when I would check in. No more than 5 or 6. Been too long to remember exactly. Eventually the whole thing was changed after McVeigh bombed OKC (many, many years later).
I don’t recall any of them walking the floor but I was off the main floor and back in a restricted area. I know I processed more than $1 million dollars by myself every night. (this was many decades ago) And there were 35-40 of us in where I was. Some nights I did more. A lot more. I used to ballpark it because it was boring work but not too bad.
But I would never give out the details, even if I remembered who specifically it was coming from. I do remember one check though. It was like a small lottery win, LOL. I never thought I’d see a check that big. No I won’t say how much so nobody bother asking, not even in FReepmail.
I don’t think they’re even at that facility anymore - last I looked was mid 1990’s though).
Capone died in Alcatraz of syphilis, not tax evasion.
IRS has guns to intimidate US citizen tax payers. But illegals are given sanctuary cities across the country where criminals hide. What is wrong with this picture?
Al Capone was a product of prohibition. I don’t approve of Al Capone, but the government created the crisis and “solved” it via corrupt agencies like FBI and IRS so the government must share the blame for the untoward consequences of prohibition.
So when the IRS got Al Capone the people cheered and these agencies grew in power. Do you like that?
I don’t have any sympathy for IRS and big government syncophants.
It is against the law for an IRS agent to carry a firearm while attempting to collect a tax debt. And why do all those departments need firearms anyway?
It’s worse than you imagine. I’ve seen statistics that some agencies that have NO business with firearms have them, in quantity. This needs to stop.
A lot of the government entities were armed under Obama. I think he was just waiting for the right time to declare himself emperor and use them to assume the throne. Fortunately for us that moment never came.
Good One!
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