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IRS Raids Gun Store, Takes All Gun Purchaser Records
PJ Media ^ | 06/17/2023 | Catherine Salgado

Posted on 06/17/2023 6:58:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

As usual, Biden’s federal government is aiming for the wrong target. Twenty armed IRS agents reportedly raided a Montana gun store, but only for forms filled out by gun purchasers. The Biden administration is apparently compiling data on gun owners.

The Washington Free Beacon reported in January 2022 that the Biden administration had almost a billion of Americans’ gun purchase records in an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) database. It seems the administration is still gathering data on legal gun owners. This comes as Biden and Democrats push gun-grabbing measures and the IRS is set to hire 87,000 more agents (thank you, Kevin McCarthy). For what purpose will the Biden administration use all this data on gun sales? Are legal gun owners the next target of a weaponized federal government?

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) went on Newsmax’s The Chris Salcedo Show June 16, where he provided details to guest host Todd Starnes. “This is stormtrooper-type activity, and we’re not used to seeing it in our country whatsoever,” Rosendale said, describing how 20 IRS agents with ARs (i.e. ArmaLite rifles) “stormed” Tom VanHoose’s store, Highwood Creek Outfitters in Great Falls. “This is the kind of activity that demonstrates why we were trying to, in the House of Representatives, defund those additional 87,000 IRS agents,” the representative added.

Rosendale, who spoke with VanHoose, called the raid “disturbing.” He highlighted the odd nature of the raid’s goal. “IRS, right? Financial records, accounting, making sure what transactions were taking place? No. They took all of the [ATF] 4473 forms. The 4473 forms are what everyone fills out when they go to purchase a firearm, and it’s just a big disclosure to make sure that you don’t have a criminal background or other reasons where you should not be purchasing firearms.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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To: SeekAndFind

And the debt ceiling bill by Hakeem Jeffries and Kevin McCarthy will fund many thousands more of these raiders.


21 posted on 06/18/2023 3:35:55 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: SeekAndFind

They won’t come for our guns.

They’turn off all your financial accounts until you turn them in.

Then they will keep them tutnrr off anyway.


22 posted on 06/18/2023 4:19:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: MileHi

“With NICS all they need is to know if the buyer is prohibited.”

There should be no prohibitions.


23 posted on 06/18/2023 4:32:39 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: central_va

In hindsight I’m surprised hollywierd had this scene in the movie.


24 posted on 06/18/2023 5:29:26 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds more like the agents were destroying evidence of one or more of their assassins.


25 posted on 06/18/2023 6:57:07 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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