Proposed bill looks to take millions in arms from one group and Americans are cheering

Usually when politicians try to take guns away from people, it’s to decimate the Second Amendment.

But sometimes there are people who are so dangerous that taking their guns is the only course of action.

And this proposed bill looks to take millions in arms from one group and Americans and gun owners are cheering.

Republicans in Congress are getting behind a bill that would take guns out of the hands of federal tax collectors.

Why does the IRS need guns?

The bill, introduced by Congressman Barry Moore (R-AL) would prohibit the IRS from buying, receiving, or storing firearms and ammunition. 

The IRS has spent $10 million taxpayer dollars on ammunition since 2020, according to an investigation by the nonprofit Open the Books, a government spending watchdog.

The bill would also require the IRS to sell off all the guns it already has to licensed dealers. 

And the bill would require the IRS to transfer its Criminal Investigations Division to the Department of Justice.

Since 2006, the IRS has spent $35.2 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment, according to Open the Books. 

The report also noted that the IRS had nearly 2,100 special agents. 

Included in the IRS purchases were $2.3 million for ammunition, $1.2 million for ballistic shields, $474,000 for Smith & Wesson rifles, and $463,000 for Baretta 1301 tactical shotguns.

Under the proposed legislation, those weapons would be auctioned off, which would require the IRS to transfer its gun collection to the General Services Administration. 

GSA would then have to sell and auction off the firearms to licensed dealers and the ammunition to the general public.

Moore, who introduced the Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act, said the taxman doesn’t need to be armed.

Make Americans Safe Again

“The IRS has consistently been weaponized against American citizens, targeted religious organizations, journalists, gun owners, and everyday Americans,” Moore said. 

“Arming these agents does not make the American public safer. My legislation, the Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act, would disarm these agents, auction off their guns to Federal Firearms License Owners, and sell their ammunition to the public. The only thing IRS agents should be armed with are calculators.”

U.S. Representatives Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Mary Miller (R-IL), and Clay Higgins (R-LA), already cosponsored the measure, and more are expected to sign on soon.

“There is absolutely zero justification for wasting taxpayer dollars to arm a federal agency that was never meant to act as an enforcement arm of the government,” Miller said. “The IRS doesn’t need a stockpile of guns and ammunition – it needs proper transparency, oversight, and accountability.”

Hageman said the IRS doesn’t need tactical shotguns.

“The weaponization of the IRS against working Americans is a threat to our Constitutional freedoms,” she said. “IRS agents should not hit homes and businesses like SWAT teams, and they should not terrorize American families. This legislation disarms the IRS.”

Every Republican member of Congress should support this bill which would make Americans safer, and help end the weaponization of the federal government against American citizens.

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