They include the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and others that have been weaponized, literally, to ‘deal with’ — not serve — the American people.
As Conservative Review reports, the IRS itself has 15 “submachine guns” and some 5 million rounds of ammunition on hand, but the tax collection agency is far from the only one belonging to the federal government that is becoming more heavily armed.
Citing a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in December, CR notes that several federal agencies are amassing weapons and ammunition at a rate that is frankly alarming:
The IRS currently has 4,461 guns, including 621 shotguns, 539 rifles, and those 15 submachine guns. The Department of Health and Human Services has over one million rounds of ammunition stockpiled for use.
The VA doesn’t just have red tape and long waiting times, it turns out. The agency also purchased almost 3,000 rounds for each of its almost 4,000 police officers between 2010 and 2017. The agency also has camouflage uniforms, riot gear, and “tactical lighting.”
Other agencies are also arming up. The GAO found that the 20 agencies surveyed for the above timeframe collectively spent “at least $1.5 billion in total” on ammo, firearms, and tactical gear. (Related: FDA goes paramilitary, now revealed to own 390 pistols, 122 shotguns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition… while pushing toxic vaccines and deadly chemotherapy on children.)
As the date range suggests, most of the purchases were made during the Obama years. In fact, as Natural News reported in May 2014, the Department of Agriculture even put in a request for “submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W” with “Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore grip) and scope (top rear)” along with a “collapsing” or “folding” stock. That’s serious firepower for a farm agency.
Obama loved his agencies well-armed
The buildup during the Obama years was so stark and so significant that even Left-wing publications normally allied with the Democratic president began to question it. That included Mother Jones, which published a story regarding the weapons and ammunition purchases titled, “How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter."
“From the workplace to our private lives, American society is starting to resemble a police state,” the story began.
According to the GAO report:
— The IRS has not spent any money on buying new firearms and gear since 2014, but ammunition purchases were steady until 2017;
— The EPA’s purchases of guns, gear, and other equipment for its agents were highest in 2013, 2014, and 2016, but amounted to very little in 2017;
— VA police purchases spiked in 2011 and 2017, but were steady throughout the duration of the Obama administration;
— Health and Human Services (HHS) bought firearms and ammunition for two of its departments: the National Institutes of Health, which saw a spike in those buys in 2017, and the Office of Inspector General, which bought most of its recently-purchased firearms between 2010 and 2017 (Obama-era budgets).
The GAO also noted the reason why each of these agencies was purchasing guns, ammo, and gear, although some of that information was classified as “sensitive” by HHS, the IRS, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and thus was stricken from the original version of the report.
According to the report, each of these agencies has its own law enforcement division, so that was the most common reason listed for the purchases. But millions of Americans aren’t going to be satisfied with that answer and understandably so.
A Texas-based tactical firearms shop owner offered Natural News his opinion on what was taking place during the Obama years.
"Honestly, I think the federal government is using different agencies to stockpile these weapons,” said Jeremy Alcede, founder and CEO of Tactical Firearms. “I can't imagine why the USDA would need submachine guns to enforce agricultural regulations. Are they planning for a mad cow disease rampage of some kind?”
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