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September 12th, 2009, 10:03 AM #1
Georgia Arms & The DoD...
This is a verbatim copy of an email I received today.
This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the hell out of the idiots in Washington DC from Obama all the way down.
Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America. They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes.
They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.
This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they buy it in a scrap shredded condition (which they have no use for).
The shredded brass is now going to be sold by the DoD to China as scrap metal, after the DoD pays for it to be shredded. The DoD is selling the brass to China for less money than the ammo makers have been paying, plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do the accounting paperwork.
This sure helps the economy now doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China, and do not sell at all to a proven US business. Any hidden agenda working here? Obama going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!!
The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week. The DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell cases he had already bought!
The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/shredded/melted.
The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different calibers, mainly .223 bullets.
The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of his 60 workers, within 2-3 months if the DoD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the industry. Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out.
If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases, then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.
You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here:
The Shootist Site http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/d...-military.html
If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing you
should be! Be Afraid! Be Very Very Afraid! Get involved! It's Your Freedom and Our Country They're Stealing! If You Fail to Act Now, there may not be a Free United States tomorrow!
I implore you to get involved and forward this to as many people
you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action... Act now while you still can, or stay silent, roll over, and watch our country die!
Thoughts? Anyone confirm this? Supposedly it's been resolved, but I couldn't find any press release by the DoD, just bloggers.Check my feedback: https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=42671
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September 12th, 2009, 10:31 AM #2Grand Member
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Re: Georgia Arms & The DoD...
Yes it has been resolved.
http://www.dla.mil/DLAPUBLIC/DLA_MED...se.aspx?ID=438The 2A does not GIVE us the right. It tells the gov they can not INFRINGE our right.
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September 12th, 2009, 10:52 AM #3
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This is months old.
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September 12th, 2009, 08:52 PM #4Senior Member
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Re: Georgia Arms & The DoD...
V E R Y old. Before you get your pantyhose in a bunch , you need to do a search before you post.
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September 12th, 2009, 09:22 PM #5
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I appreciate the advice on both searching and your keen fashion sense when it comes to cross-dressing, but as I stated in the OP It is a Verbatim (i.e. word for word) copy of an email I received. I did a search, and only came up with results from personal blogs, not any factual postings.
Thank you and the other members who have not only answered my original question, but have let me know the age and irrelevancy of this not so current event. It's good to see the DoD has rescinded this order so American businesses can continue to thrive in these trying economic times.Check my feedback: https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=42671
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September 13th, 2009, 10:02 AM #6
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Granted its already been resolved , but IMHO it says a lot about the political environment we face and the need to remain vigilant and active. Thanks for the reminder.
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September 13th, 2009, 09:08 PM #7Senior Member
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I recall that this order lasted only a couple of weeks at the most before the uproar made its way uphill. Glad to see that someone in the Pentagon/White House or whatever listens. Probably an Obama-ite antigun flunky.
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This old matter simply goes to reiterate, how closely the ObamaNation Clan has to be watched, to keep them Gun Banners from Treading on Our Toes...
God Bless the National Rifle Association, and whomever else raised so much stink about this brass shredding issue to the point that the DOD rescinded the order in such a short order and in such an EMPHATIC way....
Yes, I'm a Life Member of the NRA. Like it's been said, elsewhere, the NRA is like Family, I might not agree with .everything. they do, but I'm not going to quit supporting them.
Politics are full of compromises, both good for us, and others that might not seem to be what we want...
Jim Fleming
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September 15th, 2009, 03:49 AM #9Member
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Re: Georgia Arms & The DoD...
Just and FYI for future use, I use Snopes or TruthOrFiction to verify the accuracy of forwarded emails before I get too concerned.
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
There are 'way too many hoaxes or at a minimum, embellished, email stories making their way across the internet. When we respond to one of the bogus "forwards" and contact a lawmaker or other official, we lose credibility. This tends to feed into the "gun nut" mentality of the elites and anti-gun crowd when we do have legitimate concerns.
We serve our gun community best by being well-informed and having done our fact-checking at a higher lever than the traditional media sources, then contacting the appropriate authority, legislator or whomever.
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