Why does the IRS need $700,000 worth of ammunition in 2020?

[Daniela1982]

That is a lot of ammo. At 50 cents a pop for 5.56mm AR-15 rounds, that would be 1,400,000 rounds of ammo, enough for a small war. These guys are just tax people. Why do they need such an ammunition cache? If a private citizen has 20,000 rounds it is called a crime (man arrested for having weapons and ammunition) and the guy is stocking up on ammo for an uprising.

Between March 1 and June 1, 2022, the criminal division of the IRS ordered $696,000 in ammunition, the IRS told VERIFY in an email.
The order was for the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division, which is a federal law enforcement agency that conducts criminal investigations including tax violations, money laundering, cyber crimes, and organized crime involving drugs and gangs. There are more than 2,000 sworn special agents in the division.
“Many of these cases are typically worked in conjunction with other state and federal law enforcement agencies. IRS-CI special agents have been carrying firearms throughout the more than 100-year history of the agency, and have found themselves dealing with some of the most dangerous criminals,” an IRS spokesperson told VERIFY.
In 2018, the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report on what the IRS spent on firearms and ammunition from 2010 through 2017. The data starts on page 75 of the report.
From 2010 through 2017, the IRS has spent an average of $675,000 on ammunition a year, the report shows. During that time, the IRS spent the most in 2011, with $1,100,000 in spending.

IRS Break Room

[Static_In_The_Attic]

There is more to the IRS than you think & when people think of the IRS they think of a bunch of paper pushers however a lot of those paper pushers are agents that bust down doors & more.

[Chazmatazz269]

The IRS is the single most powerful entity in the US government. They’re the only ones who can attack and shut down other government entities. So much for the separation and balance of powers! Ell oh ell! They’ll have all the weapons and ammunition they want too, since literally the only purpose of the IRS is to fund military expansionism.

[VanessaValentine]

I wish my gun stores looked like that. All the gun stores around me just carry flocks and ARs. They don’t know anything about guns. Talking to them is the same as my father trying to get help from a Lowes employee, useless.

[Daniela1982]

I hear you on the Lowe's. I don't even go there anymore.

[FreyaRed]

Training?
If you calculate it with rounds per agent it's not really that much.

[Daniela1982]

Taht is almost 1.5 million rounds. Just how many agents do you think they have? What gun are they using, a mini gatling gun?

[bolverk]

The IRS and other government agencies received instructions from the Biden Administration to buy up vast quantities of ammunition in multiple calibres for handguns rifles and shotguns with the express intention to cause an ammunition shortage for the public those agencies range from Fish & Game through to the FBI, Dept Homeland Security, Coast Guard and all branches of the military, and the domestic manufactures have by their contracts to supply them first with the public at the back of the que.

[Jersey2]

I think the Federal government is made up of primarily democrats. The government is now trying to train them to use guns for an potential Civil War.

[Daniela1982]

You never know.

[Sixgunsound]

They are either laundering it for sale to our enemies or about to do something for which a reasonable person would react in physical self defense. I see no other options.

[Staximus]

This is just bullshit unchecked government spending. The IRS can have the dept of justice show up with the guns anytime they want.

[888theGreat]

He is trying what Obama tried. Trying to buy it up to inflate the price so high no Americans can afford buying it. It will fail like with Obama

[888theGreat]

You need some.38 Special load? I have some.

[888theGreat]

Also many people reload their Ammo , so they would have to buy all the copper and lead out there

[Sixgunsound]

They are. Obama killed off the last lead foundry in the United States

[Sixgunsound]

Ranges near me have prohibited lead mining in outdoor backstops or emptying bullet traps to cast lead for reloads because they are making so much money selling it.

[NYCQuestions1976]

They're going to need all of it to try and collect the revenue from the nearly 50% tax bracket that socialists are working on right now. Emphasis on "try".

[Daniela1982]

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

[bean2k21]

That's about 440 rounds per employee. If each employee practices shooting once a month, that's about 36 rounds at the shooting range. Better make them count.

[Massageman]

For target practice. If the IRS runs out of taxpayers to shoot, the mint will stamp out some coins, and the IRS tosses them up and tries to shoot them!

PULL!!!

[genericname85]

well obviously in times where the government starts pushing tyrannical nonsense, people prepare for the worst.

[Daniela1982]

Well then it should be people buying the ammo, not the Government tax collectors.

[genericname85]

oh, i'm sure they were as aware of the situation as everyone else. i don't live in the USA but i don't wanna know what it's like to collect taxes from entiteled hillbillies who are armed to their teeth, firmly believe they don't owe money to the government and also struggeling financially.

[Likes2drive]

I guess they’re expecting a revolt considering how they are running things lately

[msc545]

They practice target shooting a lot I guess.

[Daniela1982]

Must be really dangerous collecting taxes.

[msc545]

yes, well, they are gun guys, so...

[Surely]

I am sure if you only knew the real reason. You would be extremely surprised 😮!

[Zolly99999]

Sounds like some "personal ' fun for the employees at the tax payers expense!!!

[Sixgunsound]

This is also a good point. So citizens have historically held government officials accountable for their crimes during Civil War’s or revolutions, so it makes sense that government officials who know they’ve committed crimes and are likely to face justice from the barrel of a gun would as their last robbery of the taxpayer use tax payer resources to train them selves to defend themselves from accountability for their crimes.

[noohair]

Internal State police force that already exists and does not have to be created.

[Shamalien]

I think we both know why

[Guardian45]

They have to keep the gun lobby paying their taxes

[Jouth]

for the tax wars

[BLP11520]

Screw the government