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How Many Guns Does the IRS Have?
townhall.com ^ | 11/17/2021 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 11/18/2021 11:04:52 AM PST by rktman

"Between the huge sums aimed directly at enforcement activities and operations support, expect a large majority of the $88 billion of new IRS funding to directly or indirectly support things like asset monitoring, audits, taxpayer investigations, and legal actions against taxpayers," they continue.

"On the issue of enforcement actives and operations support," Americans for Tax Reform is reminding taxpayers the IRS already has substantial authority and power. This includes ownership of thousands of guns and agents who can be deployed to use them.

The IRS has stockpiled 4,600 guns and five million rounds of ammunition as of Jan. 1, 2019 according to a report from OpenTheBooks published in 2020.

An OpenTheBooks report titled The Militarization of U.S. Executive Agencies shows that, even without the proposed $80 billion increase in funding, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) is already heavily armed at the expense of the American taxpayer. How much larger will this unchecked arsenal get if the agency gets more funding?

The current 4,600-gun stockpile includes 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles, and 15 submachine guns.

According to the Government Accountability Office the ammunition breakdown is as follows:

Pistol and revolver rounds: 3,151,500

Rifle rounds: 1,472,050

Shotgun rounds: 367,750

Fully automatic firearm rounds: 56,000

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; wellarmed
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Next gun show I guess I need to be on the lookout for them there "Fully automatic firearm rounds". Bet they are awesome. SMDH! I was unaware we were segregating ammo now. Guessing the other 3,425 firearms are mere handguns?
1 posted on 11/18/2021 11:04:52 AM PST by rktman
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“Fully automatic firearm rounds: 56,000”...belt fed weapons?


2 posted on 11/18/2021 11:07:39 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( β€˜When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: rktman

Perhaps they mean chained ammo?


3 posted on 11/18/2021 11:07:52 AM PST by rarestia (β€œA nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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I bet the citizens of my rural MO county has about the same


4 posted on 11/18/2021 11:08:03 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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need to be on the lookout for them there “Fully automatic firearm rounds”

From the Rittenhouse trial, I understand that the full metal jacket ones are particularly deadly!


5 posted on 11/18/2021 11:08:17 AM PST by cdcdawg (Let's Go, Brandon!)
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To: rktman

SBRs, maybe, as well.


6 posted on 11/18/2021 11:08:22 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: rktman

Katie Pavlich is soooooooo yummy! (Ahem. Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.)


7 posted on 11/18/2021 11:09:28 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Pollard

Yeah, my first thought was “slackers”. Then I remembered that feds can shoot people at will with no repercussions.


8 posted on 11/18/2021 11:10:29 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Easy big fella!


9 posted on 11/18/2021 11:11:46 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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What does the IRS need with guns anyway? Intimidation to collect taxes?


10 posted on 11/18/2021 11:12:15 AM PST by SkyDancer (Let's Go Brandon!)
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Hi.

How Many Guns Does the IRS Have?

Hopefully not enough.

5.56mm


11 posted on 11/18/2021 11:13:25 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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It’s not how many guns they IRS has, it’s how many guns they have ACCESS to. Buy my estimate, about 4 million.


12 posted on 11/18/2021 11:16:19 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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SSS


13 posted on 11/18/2021 11:19:37 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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I seem to remember Obambi hired 20,000 more IRS agents and accompanying 20,000 shotguns.


14 posted on 11/18/2021 11:20:35 AM PST by spokeshave (We would be ahead by banning fossil fools, like Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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I think the general public would be surprised at the ethnic makeup of the current IRS. I know the Memphis branch had at least one or two whites.


15 posted on 11/18/2021 11:22:43 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: rktman
The communists have already removed the ballot box as a means for citizen choices...
The 2020 elections proved that "blatantly"...

The communist-driven election fraud/cheating has been going on since 1948 and escalating ever since...
2020 was their 'in-your-face" victory moment and the sheeple just rolled over into the fetal position...

J-6 simply gave the communists the opportunity to make the "in-your-face" tyranny permanent...
The sheeple showed their approval by not doing something about the suffering J-6 POWs...

Simply put, we now live in a communist country with its typical farcical ballot box elections...

What to do? That is the question...

16 posted on 11/18/2021 11:26:08 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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1 is too many.

And where are they? Does the IRS have any boats?


17 posted on 11/18/2021 11:31:31 AM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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I’ve been in IRS offices and seen boxes of Bulletproof vests. Three boxes of them maybe 15 or 18 vests.


18 posted on 11/18/2021 11:34:44 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: rktman

lol!


19 posted on 11/18/2021 11:35:23 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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They’re going to need a lot more.


20 posted on 11/18/2021 11:48:09 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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