{"id":83828,"date":"2018-12-30T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83828"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T18:56:29","slug":"gao-irs-had-4487-guns-5062006-rounds-of-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83828","title":{"rendered":"GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Terence P. Jeffrey<\/p>\n

(CNSNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n

Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 \u201cfully automatic firearms\u201d and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.<\/p>\n

The same report–“Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammuntion, and Tactical Equipment”–says that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term \u2018fully automatic\u2019 used in this report,\u201d says a footnote in the report, \u201cencompasses a range of firearms classified as machine guns, including submachine guns, three round burst guns, and guns with a selector switch that can enable continuous fire.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The guns in the IRS inventory also included 3,302 pistols, 623 shotguns, 543 rifles, and 4 revolvers.<\/p>\n

The ammunition stockpiled by the IRS\u2014in addition to the 56,000 rounds for its fully automatic firearms–included 3,156,046 pistol and revolver rounds, 368,592 shotgun rounds and 1,481,368 rifle rounds.<\/p>\n

The IRS\u2019s firearms and ammunition are used primarily by its Criminal Investigation (CI) unit, which is manned by 2,148 federal law enforcement officers. But some of it is also used by the IRS\u2019s Police Officer Section, which includes only 9 federal law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIRS\u2019 Criminal Investigation serves the American public by investigating potential criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes in compliance with the law,\u201d the GAO explained in the report it published this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIRS\u2019 Police Officer Section,\u201d said the report, \u201cprovides protection for the people, property and processes of its Enterprise Computing Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, which houses 10 of IRS\u2019 19 critical tax processing functions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wonder who got the revolvers? The rest of this disturbing article may be viewed at: CNS News<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip ‘o the hat to our very own Poetrooper. Thanks buddy- keep ’em coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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