REPORT: Notorious government agency would be stripped of guns and ammo under proposed bill

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From Fox News: While American taxpayers are familiar with the annual rigmarole of filing their federal taxes and realizing just how much of their hard-earned money Uncle Sam is taking away, several House Republicans are pushing a proposal to take some things away from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): Guns and ammunition.

The “Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act” would disarm the federal agency, prohibiting the commissioner of internal revenue from using funds to buy, receive or store firearms and ammo, and requiring the transfer of IRS firearms and ammunition to the Administrator of General Services.

The guns would then be sold or auctioned to licensed dealers and the ammo would be auctioned to the public.

Proceeds would go to “the general fund of the Treasury for the sole purpose of deficit reduction,” the measure stipulates.

The legislation was introduced by Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and cosponsored by GOP Reps. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Mary Miller of Illinois and Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

“The only thing IRS agents should be armed with are calculators. Tax Day is a great reminder that it’s time for the IRS to stop wasting our taxpayer dollars stockpiling guns and ammo,” Moore declared in a post on X Tuesday.

Rep. Miller wrote, “The IRS doesn’t need a stockpile of guns and ammunition — it needs proper transparency, oversight, and accountability. I fully support @RepBarryMoore’s bill to disarm the IRS and end this dangerous power grab once and for all!”

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has proposed a similar bill on the Senate side.

“Two mind blowing facts: IRS has enough armed agents to be one of the 50 largest police forces in America. It is more common for IRS agents to accidentally fire their weapon than to do so intentionally. My new bill disarms the IRS and saves tax dollars,” Ernst announced Tuesday.

In additional posts, Ernst shared the following:

Unfortunately, tax-dodging bureaucrats are not limited to just the IRS. In Fiscal Year 2021, the IRS found 149,000 federal employees owed approximately $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes!

While many IRS agents have not been paying their taxes, that has not stopped them from spending millions of your tax dollars to stockpile weapons.

Since 2020, the IRS has spent at least $10 million on guns and ammo for its 2,100 special agents.

The agency has enough armed agents to make it one of the 50 largest police forces in America. Which is very concerning given its history of politicalization.

Even more concerning is the fact that an investigation revealed that it is MORE COMMON for IRS agents to ACCIDENTALLY fire their weapon than to do so intentionally.

I am leading a series of reforms to fix “America’s least favorite government agency,” the IRS.

For starters, my Audit the IRS Act will require annual audits of the agency and fire every tax-dodging tax collector.

Next, my TAX DODGER Act prohibits tax cheats from serving in the federal government. If you and I have to pay taxes, so do bureaucrats.

Lastly, the IRS should not be so heavily armed. My Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act auctions off the agency’s stockpile and gives the proceeds back to the taxpayers.

The IRS is America’s least favorite government agency for a reason. With these commonsense reforms, we can make the agency better serve the American people.

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