$35 million spent on guns and ammunition. What a waste.

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Fellow American,

You probably feel the IRS has you in their crosshairs every April 15th.

I bet you didn’t count on their crosshairs being literal.

My organization, Open the Books, has found that the IRS has spent $35 million on guns, ammunition, and military weaponry since 2006...

...and that’s AFTER the agency stockpiled a cache of 5 million rounds of ammo and 4,500 guns – including 15 submachine guns.

Today, nearly 2,100 IRS agents have the authority to use a firearm.

That’s more than police departments in most major cities have, Fellow American!

The militarization of the IRS – which has already been figuratively weaponized against taxpayers – MUST stop.

Add your voice to the millions of Americans demanding action from Congress – Sign Open the Books’ petition to disarm the IRS today.

Fellow American, these shocking numbers are part of Open the Books’ proprietary database of public spending at all levels of government – the largest of its kind in human history.

My team and I are dedicated to posting EVERY dime the government spends online, in real time, in service of the transparency and accountability our government sorely needs.

Our work has its roots in the Federal Funding Accountability Act of 2006, a landmark transparency bill that led to ALL federal spending being put online in a searchable database for the first time.

This was a good first step toward launching the transparency revolution.

But it wasn’t enough.

It took too long to post the data, and federal agencies stonewalled the law’s efforts to shine a light on their operations.

So in 2011, our late founder, Adam Andrzejewski, started Open the Books to provide real time oversight into public spending and government waste, fraud, and abuse.

Now, thanks to our database, Open the Books stands alone in its ability to assess tens of trillions of dollars in public spending.

This includes spending by the IRS to arm itself – literally – against American taxpayers.

Fellow American, I think you’ll agree that this is not only a ridiculous waste of money by the IRS – it's a dangerous one, too.

What better way to join the transparency revolution with me than by signing the petition to disarm the IRS today?

Fellow American, transparency is the first principle of Open the Books.

I believe it’s the building block of representative government that makes all the other freedoms you and I enjoy possible.

America’s founders thought so, too.

That’s why they put this foundational principle in the Constitution:

“A regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expeditions of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”

I highly doubt our founders would approve of a weaponized IRS, much less ANY government agency operating without transparency.

But here’s a story of citizen activism and accountability – the kind you’re engaging in by signing our Disarm the IRS petition – our founders would appreciate:

Fellow American, do you remember when the IRS targeted and harassed conservative nonprofits during the Obama presidency?

One of the agency’s top directors even had to publicly apologize for her office using terms like “tea party” to decide which groups to set its sights on.

Transparency brought that figurative weaponization to light.

Now you can help bring the literal militarization of the IRS further into the public eye by adding your voice TODAY to the millions who have already signed Open the Book’s petition to disarm the IRS.

Transparency can transform how we govern ourselves – including how we hold federal agencies accountable when they bulk up on ballistics they don’t need.

Fellow American, it’s past time bureaucrats left the weaponry to law enforcement.

After all, American taxpayers have enough to worry about without wondering if an IRS agent is going to show up on their doorstep with a gun instead of a pocket calculator.

You should be able to decide for yourself whether you’re happy about the federal government spending your hard-earned tax dollars on 87,000 new agents and paying for their arms training.

But you can’t make that decision unless you know that’s how the IRS is spending the money in the first place.

That’s why I hope you’ll join the transparency revolution and sign Open the Book’s petition to disarm the IRS today.

John Hart

CEO, Open the Books

P.S. Elon Musk and DOGE have announced plans to audit the IRS – good!

But they also need to shine a light on the money being wasted on weaponizing the IRS.

Fellow American, consider these numbers found by my organization, Open the Books, that Elon and his team are using as they dig into how the IRS militarized itself:

$35 million spent on guns, weapons, and ammunition since 2006;
$2.5 million spent on ballistic shields and tactical gear;
More than $500,000 spent on ballistic helmets and body armor;
Nearly $1 million was spent on Smith & Wesson rifles and Berretta tactical shotguns.

Bureaucrats don’t need that kind of weaponry.

Will you help me shine a light on this abuse of taxpayer dollars today by signing this petition telling Congress to disarm the IRS?

Your signature helps advance the transparency revolution that could disarm the IRS immediately.

American Transparency

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