Wednesday - February 03, 2010

Pay Your Taxes

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.

Hey, aren’t they coool? Aren’t they the shizzz? They have to have the super dooper Knoxx Stocks, $150 each, all tactical and adjustable, and double spring loaded to absorb 95% of the recoil. Just wait till they have to bash in a door or smash a still with one of those things. Ain’t gonna work.

And while it’s interesting that the IRS sees fit to remind their vendors to include the special gun tax, do they grant themselves special Class III SBR status now? Because none of us can own a scattergun with a 14” tube on it.  Ain’t legal. Or did they just spend a big pile of our scratch getting 60 Class III permits from BATF? Transferable ones, so anybody in the department can use these weapons?

The sights are nice, good stuff. The forend is a bit of a silly specification, since the Remington comes with a nice grippy forend to begin with. But the “only shotgun authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory” is pure horse shit. Because they just bought 200K dollars worth of Remington model 11-87 shotguns 12 years back. The model 870 is a pump gun, the model 11-87 is a gas powered semi-automatic. Two entirely different guns, with very few parts shared between them.

Richard Bachert, Georgia CATS
July 29, 1998 Richard Bachert

The IRS is contracted with several vendors to obtain various specialized
weapons and covert surveillance materials. Please see:
http://www.treas.gov/sba/irssic.html For example, Remington Model 11-87
Shotguns (a $200,000 contract) are a special model made exclusively for the
IRS, holding 8 cartridges instead of the normal legal limit of 3.

How the hell do you wear out a Remington in 12 years? This is something no one else has ever been able to do. You’d think the IRS is in constant gun battles or something? Or at the range busting clays 40 hours a week? About the only thing that ever wears out on a gas gun is the gas seals, and that’s a $5 fix once a year if you shoot constantly!

Why the IRS can’t buy Mossbergs like every other police department in the country is beyond me. Or why they have to come up with their own spiffy standards when the FBI and the military are already procuring tactical shotguns in a very workable design. And then they need fancy fast acquisition sites on their choked sawed off barrels? Sounds to me like they’re building drive-by rigs, or long range buckshot blasters they can hide under their black leather trench coats.

No, let the IRS get their shotguns from the leftovers from the other branches that have an actual need for such things. If they really have to have new ones, go to Walmart like everyone else.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/03/2010 at 09:37 PM   
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