[lrdg]

They were a tax enforcement agency. Treasury, you know, “revenuers”.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They were a tax enforcement agency. Treasury, you know, “revenuers”."

Ah, yes. But lots of other things are taxed, too, and it seems that these were linked together under the idea that they were all "sin" taxes. So, owning a gun was considered quasi-sinful.