Under the Disarm the IRS act, the agency in charge of enforcing taxes would be barred from buying ammunition after the agency has already amassed over 5 million rounds.
In 2022 alone, the IRS already bought $725,000 worth of ammo, according to Gaetz’s claim.
“I’m not against stockpiling ammunition, but you shouldn’t have to be a D.C. accountant to do it; you ought to be a mechanic in Pensacola,” Gaetz said to Fox News. The Biden regime wants to “disarm Americans, open the border, empty the prisons,” and “still collect your taxes” with $725,000 worth of ammunition, Gaetz warned.
According to Bethany Blankley of The Center Square, Gaetz’s “bill would need to pass the House Ways and Means Committee before it’s considered by the full House.” South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan, Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, and Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green have co-sponsored Gaetz’s bill.
“Why is Biden trying to weaponize the IRS?” Duncan tweeted. In addition, Gosar tweeted the absolute need to disarm “this band of highwaymen and stop them from taking our money under the threat of violence.”
Per a Government Accountability Office report, in 2018, there were 2,148 law enforcement officers working under the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division. They had 4,461 weapons in their arsenal, which included 15 fully automatic weapons and north of 5 million rounds of ammunition.
The IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division is tasked with investigating “potential criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes in a manner that fosters confidence in the tax system and compliance with the law.”
Over the course of two years, the IRS’s 2018 stockpile grew even larger.
Two years later, the 2018 stockpile increased more. A 2020 OpenTheBooks.com report indicated that a ‘“militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies” took place during this time frame. In the IRS’s case, they then had 2,159 special agents,$21.3 million allocated toward firearms, ammunition and military-style equipment during the fiscal years 2006 and 2019. In that period, the IRS was able to amass a stockpile of over 4,500 guns.
Adam Andrzejewski, Open the Books’ CEO and founder, said to The Center Square, "After grabbing legal power, bureaucrats are amassing firepower. It's time to scale back the federal arsenal. Just who are the federal agencies preparing to battle?”
This report illustrated how 103 federal agencies not under the Department of Defense’s purview and 76 administrative agencies spent $2.7 billion and $110.6 million, respectively, on ammunition, firearms, and military-style equipment between the fiscal years of 2015 and 2019.
One of the most shocking revelations from this report is that there are more federal officers with arrest and firearm authority who work for the IRS (200,000) than U.S. Marines (182,000).
"Our 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,” Andrzejewski stated.
How does the IRS fit into gun politics? Apart from being an agency that intrudes on the financial privacy of millions of Americans of all political backgrounds, races, and religions, the IRS is also notorious for harassing organizations and threatening to remove their tax-exempt status. The IRS is an integral part of the progressive Deep State that seeks to modify individuals’ behavior and attack groups who believe in traditional American freedoms and culture.
This same type of persecution could befall gun rights organizations if the Second Amendment continues making more progress. Like the ATF, the IRS is another unaccountable government agency whose budget seems to grow annually without fail.
To fully restore the Second Amendment, gun rights organizations must be willing to support other organizations who are committed to reducing the size of the federal government. Liberty cannot exist in the context of a bloated administrative state.
José Niño is a freelance writer and political analyst based in Austin, Texas. Contact him via Facebook or Twitter. Get his premium newsletter on political strategy here. Subscribe to his Substack here.
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