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Clicky

What are they going to do, break in your door and point a shotgun at you for not paying taxes? (That is unless you're Timothy Geitner or a congressman or something, then you get a pass) Maybe they are trying to discourage the idea of a tax rebellion? I'd like to see the IRS bureaucrat willing to point a shotgun at someone to collect taxes. What if the other guy has deer rifle and shoots first? Maybe the are putting together an IRS SWAT team or something.

[Cyclops01]

A 12 gauge vs a .308!!!

Real nice shotgun for sale... never fired and only dropped once.

Mike

[BrowningBDA]

scary.. when you realise that the bush tax cuts & other large tax cuts (even on the poor..) are due to end in 2011.

The only thing they need shotguns for are federal mints & printing centers.. for security.

Why they want them? I dunno... but I can only guess whom they fear enough to think they need them.

[Ghostshot]

I would rather deal with anyone or anything else in the world then that rat maze with no cheese in the end IRS.Maybe they know something about the economy we don't know.They what to have guns to trade for food when the SHTF.

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.

Looks like the IRS CI ninjas are getting some fancy toys.

Apparently the CI division has been around since 1919. http://www.irs.gov/c...ement/article/0,,id=107522,00.html

[SeanMiller]

BrowningBDA, on 04 February 2010 - 01:21 AM, said:

scary.. when you realise that the bush tax cuts & other large tax cuts (even on the poor..) are due to end in 2011.

The only thing they need shotguns for are federal mints & printing centers.. for security.

Why they want them? I dunno... but I can only guess whom they fear enough to think they need them.

Minting money is a different part of Treasury than the IRS. If the IRS itself is buying guns, its for their own "tactical team". I mean hey, everyone is doing it...right? Your federal department is only as important as the size of its private army. I was going to copy the list on Wikipedia, but the page got deleted for lack of references. Apparently the tally was at 33 federal teams at the time of deletion.

Lets make our own list!

Off the top of my head:
- FBI (more than just HRT. Each regional office supposedly has a team)
- Federal Prison Bureau
- Each branch of the military (SRTs)
- US Marshals
- FDA (yes...the FDA. Ask the home-grown food crowd)
- ATF
- DEA
- Secret Service
- IRS (apparently)
- Dept. of Energy

Im sure there are many, many more. Thats just the ones that I could think of off the top of my head.

Ive heard lots of rumbling about people refusing to pay taxes on the "starve the beast" principal. Might be why they are beefing up.

I still have a picture in my head of accountants stacked up for a raid....

[Cyclops01]

I don't care who they are... if you go out collecting money at gun point, it's called robbery.

Mike

[Cyclops01]

Hummm!!! I wonder if 2+2= the reason for the shotguns?

check dis out

Mike

[ChemSoldier]

SeanMiller, on 04 February 2010 - 01:49 PM, said:

Lets make our own list!

Off the top of my head:
- FBI (more than just HRT. Each regional office supposedly has a team)
- Federal Prison Bureau
- Each branch of the military (SRTs)
- US Marshals
- FDA (yes...the FDA. Ask the home-grown food crowd)
- ATF
- DEA
- Secret Service
- IRS (apparently)
- Dept. of Energy

I am assuming the TSA has to have something, must get boring for the Air Marshalls to just ride on airplanes. Captital Police I wager. Military SRTs are installation based I believe, so you have dozens of them (one at each installation). Coast Guard teams. CBP (Customs and Border Protection), which is the umbrella organization that includes what we knew as the Border Patrol, Customs, INS and a few other minor entities has numerous tactical teams. Oh the EPA's CID could probably count. Awesome. Just ducky. All these nimrods get heavy weapons and I cant? Straight up BS that is.