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May 8th, 2010, 10:26 PM #1
DOD Brass -- Is This For Real?
Can someone confirm the accuracy of the following email I received from my brother?
"PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON
This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the idiots we have in Washington DC .
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"Last edited by Rogue River; May 8th, 2010 at 10:31 PM. Reason: added link
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
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May 8th, 2010, 10:28 PM #2
Re: DOD Brass -- Is This For Real?
thats an old problem that got solved
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May 8th, 2010, 10:34 PM #3
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Yeah go after the ammo.....tricky bastards.
Gott mit uns
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May 8th, 2010, 10:35 PM #4
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They are doing all they can to cut off our supply.
Gott mit uns
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May 8th, 2010, 10:39 PM #5Grand Member
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May 9th, 2010, 11:06 AM #6
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Old problem from last year. The DOD got enough heat from this issue they changed their minds.
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May 9th, 2010, 11:55 AM #7Senior Member
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Re: DOD Brass -- Is This For Real?
this is old !!! I talked to Georga Arms today ( friday) and they said this floots anround every three or four mouths on the web . If this happens again they will post on there web sight .
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson - Commonplace Book 1774-1776
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May 9th, 2010, 08:52 PM #8
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May 9th, 2010, 11:26 PM #9Grand Member
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May 9th, 2010, 11:32 PM #10
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Old issue, resolved, duplicate thread.
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danbus wrote: ...Like I said before, I open carry because you don't, I fight for all my rights because
you won't, I will not sit with my thumb up my bum and complain, because you will.
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