GAO Report Shows Govt. Agencies Like IRS and NIH Are Heavily Armed, WHY?

[Weatherman2020]

Any guesses on who the IRS will use their fully automatic machine guns and 56,000 rounds of ammunition on?

“The 20 federal law enforcement agencies in GAO’s review reported spending at least $38.8 million on firearms, $325.9 million on ammunition, and $1.14 billion on tactical equipment—at least $1.5 billion in total—from fiscal years 2010 through 2017, based on data agencies provided to GAO.”

https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/695984.pdf

 

[NightFox]

Any guesses on who the IRS will use their fully automatic machine guns and 56,000 rounds of ammunition on?

If there's any justice left in the world, they'll use them on themselves.

 

[depotoo]

You know, reading the report, it sounds like they are arming just a lot of their employees, not just their leo’s, possibly.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/695984.pdf

They want to be armed. Interesting.

 

[occupied]

The most likely explanation is the same one that has the military buying weapons they do not need, congress told them to make the contract sufficiently large to allow a fat donation from the manufacturers. Boring I know but this is the government spending we are talking about.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The most likely explanation is the same one that has the military buying weapons they do not need, congress told them to make the contract sufficiently large to allow a fat donation from the manufacturers. Boring I know but this is the government spending we are talking about.

Military buys weapons to kill people.
The IRS buys weapons to .....