It Begins: 20 Heavily Armed IRS and ATF
Agents Raid Great Falls Gun Store, Seize
Firearm Purchase Records
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/17/2023 4:35:19 AM
In an unprecedented move, twenty armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents carried out a raid on a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, seizing all Form 4473s – documents that record buyer’s information during firearms transactions.
Tom Van Hoose, owner of Highwood Creek Outfitters, alleges that he has been under constant surveillance by state and federal agencies for over two years, KRTV reported.
On Wednesday, the gun shop owner reported an unexpected visit from 20 heavily armed IRS agents at his store.
The agents reportedly arrived at the shop early in the morning, as Van Hoose was opening for the day.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/17/2023 4:40:51 AM (No. 1493695)
Here come the Stazi.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
judy 6/17/2023 5:06:01 AM (No. 1493706)
Is this one of the reasons Biden wanted more armed irs agents? Will the republicans in the House investigate this? Unbelievable!
132 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DW626 6/17/2023 5:07:18 AM (No. 1493707)
Our beloved republic appears to be heading on a collision course for a Gravrillo Princip event.
Where and when is, of course, unknown and undetermined.
May God help us all if and when it does.
92 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/17/2023 5:45:53 AM (No. 1493714)
Mr. Van Hoose needs a legal defense fund because feds don’t conduct a gestapo like raid unless felony charges are predetermined. Al usual, local police provided assistance to federal agents. It was good to hear Congressman Rosendale say, “stormtrooper.”
66 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/17/2023 5:47:05 AM (No. 1493715)
As usual.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 6/17/2023 6:32:36 AM (No. 1493721)
Lived there for 33 years. Great gun shop with super decent folks. Nice indoor range. East Germany has arrived in America.
97 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 6/17/2023 6:40:32 AM (No. 1493722)
And THAT, boys and girls, is why Joe Biden desperately wanted about 85,000 additional armed jack-booted thugs for the IRS.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/17/2023 6:58:37 AM (No. 1493728)
It all leads back to Obastard!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 6/17/2023 7:20:02 AM (No. 1493736)
Owner: What are you doing here?
IRS: Someone reported on you.
Owner: Who?
IRS: Can't tell you.
Owner: What did they tell you?
IRS: Can't tell you.
Owner: What are you looking for?
IRS: One more word and you will be arrested for obstruction.
114 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
mobyclik 6/17/2023 7:23:58 AM (No. 1493740)
Now this corrupt mal-administration will sit back and see what sort response comes from this. If it's just the usual phony-baloney 'outraged word salads and Harshly Worded Letters' from the ever-weak Republican politicians, gun shops across the country are going to be hit. The government Communists running the Veggie in Chief don't give a single damn what we say. They're going all-out on disarming we the people.
62 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/17/2023 7:27:26 AM (No. 1493741)
Good thing that Nazi Trump isn't in office..........s/
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
spacer 6/17/2023 7:45:01 AM (No. 1493751)
Jan. 2 2016 Grant County Ore. grandfather father brother husband and unarmed American Robert LaVoy Finicum was murdered standing in the open road with his hands in the air by federal agents with the assist of local cops. After gunning the unarmed American down with multiple shots the federal agents turned their fire to the vehicle loaded with innocent family and riddled it with bullitts . Not one of the assassins were ever put on trial.
70 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/17/2023 7:47:35 AM (No. 1493752)
We knew that no good would come of 87,000 armed IRS agents turned cowboy. Gun store owners should store those forms off site and refuse to disclose the location. Next step, raids on the homes of legal gun owners.
68 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq 6/17/2023 7:47:49 AM (No. 1493753)
Hey, I can still get on TikTok.... life is good.
How many among us only see with tunnel vision? None who frequent this site, I wager.
29 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/17/2023 8:05:39 AM (No. 1493766)
Please excuse the follow-up post. Each of these raids undermines trust in federal law enforcement. But the jack boots don’t care about their job approval. They are at war with us.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chisca 6/17/2023 8:29:27 AM (No. 1493776)
"What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?" ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
42 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Catfur27 6/17/2023 8:30:02 AM (No. 1493777)
... watching as Trump got railroaded by the Dem Gestapo we often heard - "IF they can do it to him...they could be coming for you next !" ....sounds like exaggeration and hyperbole...??...well check it out...the jackbooted IRS and ATF have started their Purge...... ( and if you think you can count on local police for protection...think again)
....meanwhile...the Southern Border is wide open....drug runners...gang members ...islamic terrorists ... human traffickers ... disease carriers... all rolling in...........
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/17/2023 8:31:19 AM (No. 1493778)
FTA - "On Friday afternoon, the congressman announced he sent a letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, asking for answers."
Good. The pubbies wrote another letter. That takes care of it. No worries.
50 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
gop_guys 6/17/2023 8:40:31 AM (No. 1493781)
Question is, what will they do with those gun ownership forms? Go door to door? The Dems pull stunts like this and the Pubbies can’t censure the lying and seditious Schiff. Shameful.
63 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Califedup 6/17/2023 9:13:02 AM (No. 1493809)
What is most deeply disturbing about this communist death democrats agents raids on this gun shop is the "Security Assistance" provided by the local police who are supposed to be our protecting us and our freedoms and yet they assisted these jackboot KGB thugs in carrying out an illegal seizure of personal files. They should have ringed the shop with their whole force and prevented the IRS and ATF thugs from entering. By the way the arming of the IRS is a very deadly move by the communists.
The local police unfortunately in many cities and towns are not our friends.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/17/2023 9:38:56 AM (No. 1493827)
If your knee jerk reaction to such news is to blame Republicans, then it would seem you agree with Biden that the 2nd amendment was provided to we citizens by our Founders only to hunt and for target practice (strictly for hunting to put food on the table). Maintaining the rights and freedoms into which we were either born or naturalized, requires sacrifice.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/17/2023 9:43:38 AM (No. 1493832)
We will get the "I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation" BS
Where's that Nashville manifesto?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Phantomll 6/17/2023 10:07:57 AM (No. 1493848)
What happened to the 4th Amendment?
15 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/17/2023 10:08:06 AM (No. 1493850)
Re #3 - we need something more like a Ceausecu event.
20 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 6/17/2023 10:13:35 AM (No. 1493853)
Calling MTG. Calling MTG. Anybody home?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/17/2023 10:22:57 AM (No. 1493857)
They "May" have had a reasonable probable cause, one source says it concerned gun sales to Mexico, BUT, there is no reason for 20 armed agents to swarm a small(ish) local business, who's main income stream is "Online".
20 armed agents from multiple federal agencies is "Take down a crowded Hells Angles/Banditos Clubhouse" use of force.
Were the agents of the various three letter groups from Local offices? Or were they all flown in special for this? As they were for the Trump raids, raids on Lawyers, reporters, pro life Pastors? They haven't tasked this many agents to the BLM $100Million dollar fraud investigations, certainly not to the more violent and outloud "Anti Govt" aspects of BLM riots all across the country.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
kono 6/17/2023 10:24:31 AM (No. 1493858)
Contemporary revenoooers. The retro-gangland raids are going to trigger the Second Civil War. And isn't that precisely what those directing the American Bolsheviks want to happen? Careful what you ask for, folks.
18 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Pearson365 6/17/2023 10:32:17 AM (No. 1493865)
From a Hotair.com article questioning why the Dept of Education and most federal agencies are heavily armed with weapons designed to kill not one but numerous people. Or, the Biden/Harris “weapons of war” but the war is against the American people.
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
·
Follow
Your body guards, and dozens of “civil” agencies like the USDA, the US Dept. of Ed., and the EPA possess the firearms you are calling weapons of war. The reality is you want every citizen disarmed and every government agency armed with these guns.
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
Weapons of war have no place on the streets of a civil society.
Congress must pass an assault weapons ban. President Biden will sign it.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 6/17/2023 10:33:11 AM (No. 1493867)
There should be no such thing as an "armed IRS agent".
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
weirdone 6/17/2023 10:38:31 AM (No. 1493873)
#26 What is wrong with selling guns to Mexico the ATF does it?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
tisHimself 6/17/2023 10:44:04 AM (No. 1493874)
Republican governors need to review rules of engagement for state militia and reserve units.
Fighter planes you can own:
https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/gallery/fighter-jets-sale-1234622620/5-mig-21/
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/17/2023 10:44:58 AM (No. 1493876)
The Ruby Ridge and Waco SS are still at it.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/17/2023 10:45:23 AM (No. 1493877)
It is true about local police, #20. We all understand now most of them will do to us whatever they are told to do. The feeling of unequivocal ease and security one used to feel at the sight of them in public is gone. They did it to themselves.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
pmcclure 6/17/2023 11:14:50 AM (No. 1493891)
This is tyranny.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/17/2023 11:23:31 AM (No. 1493896)
Here's the game plan for the globalists...Americans are very determined to insure their freedoms...among those the right to bear arms...the only way they can undermine those freedoms is to insure Americans can't fight back...so obama and biden's cabal must disarm the electorate..giving them no chance to fight back...it's been in the planning for years.....but...with 400 millions firearms in the hands of American citizens ...they must go to the source and get all the names of those who own guns...
15 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/17/2023 11:27:24 AM (No. 1493898)
Better get them now, folks.
11 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 6/17/2023 11:36:41 AM (No. 1493907)
This certainly looks like it was done in this manner for the optics of it, in order to cause the very concerns expressed here.
Especially considering past intimidating publicity about arming the IRS, & the recent unprecedented raid by the federal government on a former POTUS at his home.
If the gun shop owner has been under surveillance for two years, & has done something unlawful, it obviously seems to many that there could be less sensational ways to have handled it.
As to blaming Republicans, they are elected representatives of the people. To whom should these types of concerns about government actions be expressed? If it’s only a matter of a lack of understanding among WTP, by whom they are elected,, then perhaps they need a better method of communication to assure accountability to the people.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/17/2023 11:42:21 AM (No. 1493912)
The Commiecrats know they may not have more than 18 months to 'fundamentally change America' I fear these things will happen with some frequency.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/17/2023 11:46:59 AM (No. 1493915)
I have been saying since this began that levying a personal property tax on all firearms will require that gun owners file an annual inventory of their armNo Second Amendment protection from taxes. s. Those who do not file or provide suspected incomplete lists will be raided. That is where this is leading. All it will take is a Democrat majority in each house and a Democrat president.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/17/2023 11:50:38 AM (No. 1493918)
Sorry for this afterthought.
#20 Locals cops provided security assistance. In case you missed Schlichter a few days ago, check this:
They Will Turn On You
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/06/12/they-will-turn-on-you-n2624342
7 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/17/2023 5:34:43 PM (No. 1494116)
Obama finally got his Stassi police force. He had to wear his Joe Biden costume, though, to git'r done. China wants very badly to publicly humiliate Biden for having a bad attitude.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/17/2023 5:57:02 PM (No. 1494123)
“ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”
I have NO information regarding the guilt or innocence of the victims of the ATF/IRS raid. BUT we can judge the government’s demeanor by reflecting on the indictment of president Trump which appears to be purely political.
That Americans do not generally protest Trump’s indictment or this apparent abuse of the Bill of Rights would suggest that Americans today take their freedoms for granted and no longer remember how many Americans sacrificed their lives so that Americans COULD protest apparent Bill of Rights violations. NO warfare on American soil for well over a century, to keep freedom alive, have made most Americans SOFT… just what the tyrants here want, COMRADE.
Elections may HAVE consequences, “but MEAN TWEETS are intolerable.” When Trump says that he is standing between you and tyranny, he’s right. You know what to do.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/17/2023 6:12:57 PM (No. 1494134)
The deep state knows that they'll have a tough time maintaining power after the 2024 elections. They want to do as much damage as they can the next 18 months.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 6/17/2023 7:04:56 PM (No. 1494160)
What Obama/Biden cabal is doing with the ATF/IRS thugs with a heavily armed raid of an innocent gun store owner should send shivers up the patriotic Americans' spines. This also means these Communists running our government, FBI, DOJ, CIA, IRS, ATF, is or will cause the American economy TO GO UNDERGROUND. Without records, without transactions or money to be traced by these evildoers wannabe Dictators running every justice department. We are in a WAR! Not just a spiritual war, but a Civil war with our nation's Constitution's life at risk.
5 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/17/2023 7:26:44 PM (No. 1494174)
Remember when the “Chinese spy balloon” crossed the US? Rumors swirled around that, not only was it not Chinese, but that it was ours and that one of its purposes was to spy on Americans, specifically “radical, right-wing, anti-government, militia groups” in Montana. Additionally, there were many reports of a loud explosion over Montana at that time, with some claiming that the spy balloon had been shot down. I find it coincidental that this IRS raid is happening there.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Muguy 6/17/2023 8:05:46 PM (No. 1494198)
And we thought that sort of thing couldn't happen in the good 'ol USA
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
HRJUNIOR 6/17/2023 8:51:44 PM (No. 1494214)
#28,
Biden will not be signing anything.....he will be toes up in a morgue very soon.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/18/2023 1:46:05 PM (No. 1494730)
Just remember, according to our government (the same people that brought us the 1/6 insurrection), 'right wing extremists' are more dangerous than China, Russia, and Iran combined.
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