Off Topic BUT We need to do Something

[Hippy]

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 as you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with what's going on in the name of stimulating our economy!

[Bill K]

Another path for Obama and his admin to get gun control. No brass or load ammo, no use for guns, right ? The present US government is so out of control and no one can do one thing about it. All we can do, is keep writing letters and sending emails to the present politicians and pray that they will wake up and do the right thing. Bill K

[Nor Cal Mikie]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/casings.asp


Very old and apparently still untrue.

[RowdyYates]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/casings.asp


Very old and apparently still untrue.

Thanks, Mike; good to know that someone actually checks facts. Sadly, even as we "speak", another well-debunked rumor regarding Obama ordering $20 million to be spent on relocating Palestinian terrorists to US is making the rounds in another thread posted today.
Hope this site isn't becoming another political rumor mill. I come here to read about .204 rifles, ammo, etc., not b.s.

[Nor Cal Mikie]

The only "sad thing" about rumors getting started is there's always a chance that they're true. Wouldn't put anything past the present administration from what we've seen with their backdoor ways of doing things. REALLY gives you lots of faith in your government?? And the worst part? It'll get worse before it gets any better. We think things are bad now, just wait till Slick Willy's old lady gets in there. I can feel my blood pressure climbing so I better go to my room now.
Just not sure where this country is headed.