WHY IS THE IRS ARMED ???

IRS Has More than 3K Handguns, 3M Rounds of Ammunition

According to the GAO, the Criminal Investigation side of the IRS also has 554 rifles, the majority of which are semiautomatic, but automatics are also included. They have an excess of 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition for the weapons, including the ammunition for the handguns………….

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/29/irs-3k-handguns-3m-rounds-handgun-ammunition/

In the United States, debtors' prisons were banned under federal law in 1833. A century and a half later, in 1983, the Supreme Court affirmed that incarcerating indigent debtors was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection clause.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/02/24/debtors-prisons-then-and-now-faq