DOD Brass -- Is This For Real?

[Rogue River]

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"

[Shawn.L]

thats an old problem that got solved

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[Triggerh4ppy]

Yeah go after the ammo.....tricky bastards.

[Triggerh4ppy]

They are doing all they can to cut off our supply.

[fingers80002]

thats an old problem that got solved

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^^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^^

In what, less than a week?

The article is dated March 15, 2009.........

[spooter66]

Old problem from last year. The DOD got enough heat from this issue they changed their minds.

[G10mm]

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 .

[mickey01023]

^^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^^

In what, less than a week?

The article is dated March 15, 2009.........

Todays date is May 9th, 2010

[falcn]

Todays date is May 9th, 2010

Right - he is saying they solved the problem in a week LAST YEAR.

[Pa. Patriot]

Old issue, resolved, duplicate thread.