the country. that s a lot of irs agents. review of job postings on the irs website shows the agency is looking to hire armed agents in all 50 states. james gagliano is retired fbi supervisory special agent and maybe he s one of the few not surprised by this. are you surprised about the aggressiveness of these ads and the hiring they need? they need thousands of employees over the next ten years. are you surprised the irs need to be armed? well, i mean, brian , for years and years and years, the irs has had an arm called the criminal investigative division. those folks are armed. they are agents. and look, it started with the treasury department. you re thinking about like eliot ness. and back in those days and there are occasions where people can be sure, look, i think they re seventy nine thousand or eighty thousand employees in the irs. i only think they ve only got about two thousand or of like 4000 total members. now, that carry firearms. they re dealing with everything. the poli
By CBS 13
Maine lawmakers could debate bills this session that allow for armed security guards at schools and would allow staff to be armed on school property.
One of the bills, sponsored by Rep.