Arming the IRS?

I am a big fan of shotguns - love the Remington Wingmaster - but can someone tell me what the IRS is doing arming themselves with police grade 12-guage pump shotguns?

From the solicitation:

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.

Like Obama, I am not a constitutional scholar, but I don't remember a provision for armed seizure of assets to satisfy an IRS claim.  I fully understand that a perp might get violent, but that's what police and FBI are for. This by the very same people who want to limit our access to firearms?

IRS dumps ACORN

In the "you've got to be kidding me!" category, of which there are far too many entries these days to keep tabs of...yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service decided it no longer needed the services of ACORN. Puhleeze tell me you are joking! OK, surely the IRS just used ACORN to poll neighborhoods to make sure people turned in their taxes on time, right?

Oh no - (ACORN) offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring. ACORN provided help on about 25,000 returns, the IRS said.

You mean like the advice they gave James and Hannah in those delightful videotapes?? Jimmy Buffet said once in a song that "truth is stranger than fiction it seems," and this fits that tag.

Note to the IRS - how about getting out the forms that ACORN filed with you on behalf of these folks over the last however many years they have been doing this and review/audit them? Maybe Obama can pay for some of his health bill with the savings (tongue planted firmly in cheek.)