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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on June 14, 2013, 05:44:46 PM
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I sure do feel better now,....IRS agents are also training with AR-15's, seems the procurement order for 12g shotguns just wasn't cutting it.
h/t to Sipsey Street Irregulars.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/jeff-duncan-irs-rifle-training-92662.html?hp=f2
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cancels-order-spying-equipment
(CNSNews.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has cancelled its purchase order for surveillance equipment, which had included coffee trays with hidden cameras and cameras that could be hidden in plants.
The IRS issued the cancellation on Wednesday at 11:49 a.m.
CNSNews.com published an initial story about the IRS's purchase order on Monday afternoon--and that story was linked on The Drudge Report.
As CNSNews.com reported, the IRS had issued a rush order for the surveillance equipment last Thursday, June 6. That order originally carried a deadline of Monday, June 10. Among the items the IRS sought to purchase were four coffee trays with hidden cameras, four cameras that could be concealed in plants, and two "concealed clock radios."
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Snip from Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) article in Politico,....
Rep. Jeff Duncan wants to know why IRS law enforcement agents are training with AR-15 rifles.
As chairman of the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee, Duncan (R-S.C.) toured a federal law enforcement facility in late May and noticed agents training with the semi-automatic weapons at a firing range. They identified themselves as IRS, he said.
“When I left there, it’s been bugging me for weeks now, why IRS agents are training with a semi-automatic rifle AR-15, which has stand-off capability,” Duncan told POLITICO. “Are Americans that much of a target that you need that kind of capability?”
(PHOTOS: 10 slams on the IRS)
While Duncan acknowledges that the IRS has an enforcement division, he questions if that level of firepower is appropriate when they could coordinate operations with other agencies, like the FBI, especially in a time of austerity.
“I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It’s not like they’re carrying a sidearm and they knock on someone’s door and say, ‘You’re evading your taxes,’” Duncan said.
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Uh, the low information voter doesn't care, cause 1/2 the country doesn't pay taxes....and half the country voted for BHO, and new records for food stamp usage, SSDI, etc,,...increase weekly.
What time is Dancing With The Stars On?