The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
Submit quotes including 11% Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) and shipping to Washington DC.
Those tax return auditing sessions must be getting really, really tense.
Seriously, this underlines the essential threat of violence that underlies all taxation. How is it that so many people who claim to be nonviolent, and to support only nonviolent policy, are the ones who vote for MORE taxation and redistribution to cure the “inequalities” of society?
UPDATE: That bit about “compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory” is interesting. That implies a rather large existing inventory, since if you’re buying sixty new ones, you wouldn’t worry about whether they were compatible with only a small number of currently owned ones.
Hey… maybe they’re just going skeet shooting.
Do skeet pay taxes?
February 13th, 2010 9:57 am
They just need to be careful to avoid those guns that have a scripture reference inscribed into the serial number. That last thing anyone would want is a Christian at the IRS.