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Why is the IRS armed?

If you worked in collections as an agent and you had to go to locations and people who owe taxes, you would want to be armed. Collection agents run into people who do not think they should be required to pay taxes, the hate the IRS, and that want to take out their rage on anyone representing or working for the IRS. People employed by the IRS need to be able to protect themselves particularly when they go to confiscate property from wealthy who have been avoiding their taxes.

Now I will say the amount of ammunition seems to be way too much and I have no idea why they have stocked up so much.

Also, when Obamacare set up the IRS as the enforcement arm of the executive branch to make sure citizens paid for insurance the IRS had to be ready to handle the eventual work of collection. However, people have to know that the individual mandate and penalty is gone. Hopefully the IRS will get out of healthcare insurance enforcement and collection of healthcare taxes, which it should have NEVER been tasked to do.

Very few Citizens get their property confiscated. The IRS has a reduced number of Debt Agents. So they aim for the highest dollar amounts.

But the fact that the IRS Agents carry firearms to protect themselves is not unreasonable.