IRS buys $725,000 worth of ammo

[titsonritz]

From 2016...

Non-military federal agencies are spending billions on guns, ammo and military gear, report finds

[1168]

NASA and DOE have legit needs. IRS? No, not at all, IMO.

[Jellybean]

The IRS also purchased enough Beretta 1301’s equipped with Aridus CROMS that Aridus acquired additional floor space and machines to increase production.

Well, I sure am glad we helped them pick the best budget semi-auto shotty on the market.... I guess they watch TFB too?

[bp7178]

Depending on specifics of contract, institutionally, $725k isn't much ammo.

For an agency the size of the IRS? Not at all.

[SomeOtherGuy]

NASA and DOE have legit needs. IRS? No, not at all, IMO.

US Dept of Edumukashun was noted earlier. US Dept of Agriculture also has multiple "SWAT" teams. WTF, why? The rifle club where I used to be on the board would allow them to practice (range closed to club members) twice a year, with their black ninja suits and MP5s on full auto and all that jazz. Why? How is it possibly justified for Ag and Education to have SWAT teams?

I can understand the security teams operated by DOE and NASA, and limited SWAT hostage/warrant teams for FBI and Marshalls. Agencies like CBP and it's starting to move into the gray zone - you can justify anything if you try hard enough, but at what point should it stop? At the least, it should stop before you have SWAT teams in the Departments of Education and Agriculture.

And if it is somehow justified, all those teams can use federally owned training facilities. It was totally bizarre that USDA needed to borrow our private club range for their training.

[prepare]

DOE might be dept of energy.

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Old news 2014:

The USDA first gained the permanent ability to arm its criminal investigators in 1981. Twenty-five other federal agencies gained that permanent ability in 2002 as result of the Homeland Security Act.

At 73 federal agencies and departments, independent sub-agencies called the Offices of the Inspector General, or OIGs, conduct oversight, perform audits and enforce laws.

It is that last function that led the USDA to order the .40-caliber “submachine guns” in May. A spokesman for USDA OIG told CNN that these “semi-automatic” weapons were acquired on September 9, 2014.

The Department of Education’s OIG put out a similar purchase order in 2010 for 27 shotguns.


More here: https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/polit...uns/index.html

[The_War_Wagon]

Isn’t this something similar that happened during the Osama administration when it was discovered that agencies like the post office and the social security administration was buying up millions of rounds of ammo for no apparent reason?

Dept. of Ejumakayshun, primarily. Were school teachers armed, that would be one thing, but clearly, too many are NOT!

[sniperfrog]

DOE and more specifically NNSA are protecting weapons grade nuclear material. That’s a pretty desirable target to terrorist groups. They have similar firepower to an infantry company.