Montana’s Republican congressman, Matt Rosendale, is demanding answers after a group of armed IRS agents swooped in on a gun store in Great Falls and temporarily closed it this week.

“This event is another example of President Biden weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hardworking Americans for exercising their constitutional rights,” Rosendale said in a letter to leaders of the Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as reported by The Blaze.

According to KRTV, a group of twenty federal agents, heavily armed, arrived at Highwood Creek Outfitters’ owner Tom Van Hoose’s shop on Wednesday morning as he was pulling in.

Background check forms containing sensitive personal information of all customers who had purchased guns at the store were confiscated by IRS agents.

But such forms do not include financial information, Rosendale said, leading him to describe the act as an “egregious breach of privacy” that “showed no regard for federal law.”

“There is no circumstance in which 4473s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS,” Rosendale noted in a letter he sent to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.

The GOP lawmaker also asked the ATF and IRS to “cease conducting these Soviet-style intimidation raids” and included a list of questions he wants to be answered by June 23.

Van Hoose informed the outlet that his shop has been under surveillance by state and federal agencies for the past two years, leading him to believe that these recent actions are part of a larger pattern.

“The current administration seems hell-bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans,” Van Hoose said in reference to some models of firearms that he sells.

The shop owner said the agents were respectful, but he nonetheless felt “invaded” and angry at losing almost a day’s worth of business.

“Given the positions of the Biden Administration, this raid appears to be an attempt to intimidate firearms dealers and owners,” Rosendale said in his letter.

“This pattern [of intimidation and harassment] appears to be orchestrated directly from the White House,” Rosendale also wrote.