{"id":1584972,"date":"2022-08-02T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584972"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:18:08","slug":"irs-stockpiles-more-than-5-million-rounds-of-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-stockpiles-more-than-5-million-rounds-of-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Stockpiles More Than 5 Million Rounds of Ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firs-stockpiles-more-than-5-million-rounds-of-ammunition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Apparently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-irs\">IRS<\/a> needs a little firepower to help with those audits.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS has stockpiled five million rounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ammunition\">ammunition<\/a> and spent $725,000 on bullets this year, according to Florida Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-matt-gaetz\">Matt Gaetz<\/a>, who has introduced a bill to block future ammunition purchases by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmaker announced his sponsorship of the Disarm the IRS Act in a July press release. The bill would ban the IRS from acquiring ammunition through direct purchase or otherwise. The bill awaits a potential vote in the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Cosponsors of the bill included three additional U.S. House of Representative members: Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4371294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/03\/30\/GettyImages-1239537223.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4371294 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/03\/30\/GettyImages-1239537223-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) shakes hands with former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the Banks County Dragway in Commerce, Ga., on March 26, 2022. (Megan Varner\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>The issue drew national attention after Gaetz appeared on Fox News\u2019 Jesse Waters Primetime last week, saying that the IRS had spent $750,000 in 2022 alone on ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall me old-fashioned, but I thought the heaviest artillery an IRS agent would need would be a calculator, not $725,000 worth of ammunition,\u201d Gaetz said during his appearance on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Other bill cosponsors took to social media, questioning the need for a heavily armed tax agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Biden trying to weaponize the IRS?\u201d Rep. Jeff Duncan posted on Twitter on July 7, adding that while the IRS builds up its arsenal, citizen Americans face ammunition shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gosar commented on Twitter July 14 that it was time to disarm \u201cthis band of highwaymen and stop them from taking our money under the threat of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While people may not think of the IRS needing weapons and ammunition, it has a criminal investigation division with armed law enforcement to pursue tax felons.<\/p>\n<p>A 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office said the IRS\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division had 2,148 law enforcement officers, 4,461 weapons\u2014including 15 fully automatic firearms\u2014and 5.05 million rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, four officers with the IRS have died since 1989 from medical conditions or accidents. None was firearm related.<\/p>\n<h2>Government Amassing Firepower<\/h2>\n<p>But the IRS isn\u2019t the only governmental agency building up massive caches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-guns\">guns<\/a> and bullets.<\/p>\n<p>OpenTheBooks.com, a nonprofit government watchdog group, released a report called \u201cThe militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies\u201d in December 2020, detailing how agencies that people wouldn\u2019t normally associate with law enforcement were stockpiling weapons and ammunition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3868738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/22\/assault-weapons-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3868738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/assault-weapons-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"a Rock River Arms AR-15 rifle\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3868738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/assault-weapons-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"a Rock River Arms AR-15 rifle\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> In this photo illustration, a Rock River Arms AR-15 rifle is seen with ammunition in Miami, Fla., on Dec. 18, 2012. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency owns 600 guns. At the same time, special agents at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are equipped with machine guns and AR15s. Even the Smithsonian Institution employed 620-armed \u201cspecial agents,\u201d up from zero officers in 2008, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Andrzejewski, CEO &#038; founder of OpenTheBooks.com, told The Epoch Times via email that the public should question why these agencies are armed to the teeth. Not only do they wield legal power, but they are also amassing firepower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust who are the federal agencies preparing to battle?\u201d Andrzejewski wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Andrzejewski said there is no public purpose for rank and file, paper-pushing federal agencies to load up on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur data shows that the federal government has become a gun show that never adjourns. Taxpayers need to tell Washington that police powers belong primarily to cities and states, not the feds,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-darlene-sanchez\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WEB_DarleneSanchez.jpg\" alt=\"Darlene McCormick Sanchez\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the IRS needs a little firepower to help with those audits.The IRS has stockpiled five million rounds of ammunition and spent $725,000 on bullets this year, according to Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}