IRS Banned From Buying Guns With Taxpayer Funds Under New Bill
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) announced a bill Tuesday that would bar the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from providing arms and ammunition to agents with taxpayer money.
The measure would prohibit the federal tax agency from purchasing, receiving, or storing guns and ammunition, according to Ernst’s office. Under the bill, ammunition and firearms that are currently in possession by the IRS would be transferred to another federal agency, the General Services Administration, for auction.
“The taxman is fully loaded at the expense of the taxpayer,” Ernst said in a news release, adding that after the IRS has been expanded in recent years, “any further weaponization of this federal agency against hardworking Americans and small businesses is a grave concern.”…