The IRS Is Looking For 60 12-Gauge Pump Actions Guns To Arm Its Investigators

The Business Insider ^ | 2-3-2010 | Courtney Comstock

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The IRS Is Looking For 60 12-Gauge Pump Actions Guns To Arm Its Investigators

Courtney Comstock
Feb. 3, 2010, 12:56 PM

Working for the IRS doesn't sound so wimpy anymore.

The IRS apparently has plans to buy 60 Remington Model 870 police 12 gauge pump action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Unit.

According to the federal business government website, these guns are serious.

The Remington parkerized shotguns come fully loaded with:

* A fourteen inch barrel
* Modified choke
* Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight
* XS4 Contour Bead front sight
* Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock
* Speedfeed ribbed black forend

We're not sure what kind of IRS duty requires this kind of combat artillery, but it sounds badass.

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[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I wonder how well they will work covered in tar and feathers!

[corkoman]

When the law breaks in
How you gunna go?
shot down on the pavement?
or waiting on death row

[tacticalogic]

Interesting that they didn’t need that kind of armament until Obama became took up residence in the Oval Office, and Pelosi, Reid, and Co. got control of Congress.

[FLAMING DEATH]

14” barrel?

Didn’t they kill a guy at Ruby Ridge a few years back for selling one of these?

What does the IRS need with sawed-off shotguns?

Hmmm. Kinda makes you wonder about this whole “consent of the governed” thing.

[alloysteel]

These people have been watching too many video games.

[lonevoice]

Good lord!

[WOBBLY BOB]

“Speedfeed ribbed black forend”...ribbed for our pleasure.

notice the pic has nothing to do with the article.

[texmexis best]

The IRS has had shotguns for many years. They deal with some pretty rough customers and they have to stock up on marmament at times.

Just an area that you normally don’t see.

[Paine in the Neck]

Any Oathkeepers in the IRS?

[Harley]

Maybe they won’t shoot you if you make less than $250,000 a year? Looks like Tax Masters and JK Harris have a whole new line of defense to prepare for.

[Paine in the Neck]

And apocalypse. :))

...and becuause...

[The Comedian]

Those tip-hiding waitresses aren't going to just shoot themselves, you know.

I am glad they are shotguns, though.
Because at 200+ yards, they might as well be squirt guns.

Oh, and here's a totally random statistic: 60 new shotguns means about 1 shotgun per million armed taxpayers.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Mobties]

14” barrel?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I had the same reaction. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a shotgun with a barrel shorter than 26 inches, except, of course, in the movies.

[The Comedian]

She works for the IRS and participates in audits of businesses. She practices regularly at the shooting range and wears a gun and bulletproof vest to her appointments.

Does she wear a Second Chance hat over her Kevlar hair?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[paul51]

I’m from the IRS and I’m here to collect

[Liberty Valance]

...and ‘because’

[bvw]

Well, it is yet another evidence that ‘the militia’ should be able to carry coach guns, scatterguns, blunderbusses and short barreled shot guns without special license.

[paul51]

i’ve got an 870 with an 18” barrel. That's fairly standard for HD. Below that is illegal in my parts.

[RobRoy]

Man, that thing is a major spelling fail. :)

[TStro]

EPA, IRS, and many other federal agencies have SWAT teams. Saw the EPA SWAT team in action in Amarillo back in the mid ‘90’s, raiding a waste disposal firm next to my daughter’s dentist. Flack jackets with “EPA SWAT” on the back. Company was supposedly illegally disposing of medical waste (never heard what became of that). Carried M-16’s or AR-15’s (didn’t get close enough to tell) and semi-auto sidearms. Remember Clinton’s 100,000 new police? These are some of them.