According to a recent report, the IRS has spent over $10 million since 2020 in order to militarize the agency. The ridiculous sum of money has gone towards guns, ammunition, tactical gear and military equipment. Meanwhile, the federal government has made it their mission to tell American citizens that they longer have the right own assault style rifles and other firearms. Why does a financial agency like the IRS need to be militarized to such a high degree? The answer is that the government is looking for more control and power, and they are now willing to hold Americans at gun point.
According to The Blaze:
“There are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority (200,000) than U.S. Marines (186,000),” the watchdog group’s report noted.
Since 2006, the IRS has purchased $35.2 million worth of guns, ammunition, and other tactical gear for its special agents. The agency ramped up its weapon purchases in 2020 and 2021, spending $10 million since the beginning of the COVID lockdowns.
OpenTheBooks.com’s report revealed a breakdown of the agency’s recent purchases, which showed that since 2020 the IRS spent $2.3 million on duty ammunition, $1.2 million on ballistic shields, $474,000 on Smith & Wesson rifles, $467,000 on tactical lighting, $463,000 on Baretta shotguns, $354,000 on tactical gear bags, $267,000 on ballistic helmets, and $243,000 on body armor vests.
Last year, the IRS created a job posting seeking “Criminal Investigation Special Agents” that would be required to “carry a firearm” and be willing to use “deadly force, if necessary.”
The scariest part is that the IRS isn’t the only federal agency arming up to harass ordinary people. The Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and an additional 102 departments outside the Department of Defense have spent $3.7 billion on guns since 2006.
