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Armed and Beltway-ish: More Federal Bureaucrats Than U.S. Marines Are Authorized to Pack Heat | RealClearInvestigations

By Thomas A. Smith

When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that Democrats new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.

A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers. The GOP claims were widely attacked as exaggerations since the video, though from the IRS, didn t show official agent training but the criticism has shed light on a growing trend: the rapid arming of the federal government.

via www.realclearinvestigations.com

Why do the Feds need so many guns? Are they planning a big hunting expedition or something?