Posted on 05/02/2010 4:12:10 PM PDT by GrannyK
PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON
This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the hell out of 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/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-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!
You did good.
You didn’t kill the html formatting, and anything that is out of whack in the arrticle body the mods can fix easily.
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I recall this in the news a while back when there was a major ammo shortage, it's good that it is kept in the news for it does appear to be senseless outside of political agenda.
I just don’t understand why they want to destroy the shells when the military will also have to pay more for ammo.
These people are not idiots, they are cunning, treasonous wolves, mounting an attack on the Second Amendment. Make no mistake, death camps are on the way! IMHO
This is just the regime doing what it can to reduce the supply of ammunition. It is so desperate to keep the people unarmed that it will literally spare no expense to do this.
I can only guess it is to create a shortage and at the same time, get rid of all casings that aren't bar coded.
The story is a year old and the policy was changed almost as soon as it was initiated.
Update: http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/plowshares-beaten-back-into-bullets.html
DoD decision rescinded.
The same story was going around about a year ago, but I heard everything got straightened-out.
http://proliberty.com/observer/20090311.htm
Thanks! I was told this but in my opinion we all need to keep vigilant and expect this from those in charge.
ANd it is such an abuse of our tax dollars.
Liberals suck. aND THEY ARE STUPID....DO THEY NOT KNOW THAT GOVERNMENT CHANGES WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELECTED? DO THEY THINK THEY ARE SAFE WITH GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING EVERYTHING? JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE THE ONES IN THE HOSPITAL HALLWAYS SCREAMING WITHOUT HELP OVER THE PLUG BEING PULLED ON A BELOVED CHILD BECAUSE STATISTICS SHOW HE OR SHE IS GOING TO BE TOO EXPENSIVE TO TAKE CARE OF MEDICALLY. AND IT WILL BE THE POOR BLACK FOLKS AND THE POOR WHITE FOLKS AND THE POOR HISPANIC FOLK WHO SUFFER THIS FIRST BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LEAST POWERFUL OF ALL...THE ONES WHO WANTED THE FREEBIES AND THEN FIND OUT THEY GOT SATAN IN A GOVERNMENT WRAPPED PACKAGE, INSTEAD.
PLEASE read the original article more carefully!
1. The article is dated March 2009.
2. In huge capitals at the original article, it says "This situation has been resolved." This was posted last March and everyone wrote their congresscritters and it was rescinded.
Sorry if I sound short but I'm posting from my iPhone.
Moronic economics... moronic politics... deprives Americans... benefits the Chinese... yes, this has “Washington Handiwork” written all over it.
America has fallen into a pit of PC insanity, and it’s digging itself in ever deeper day by day.
Pure and simple.
You did exceedingly well, GrannyK. Welcome.
Not idiots, but rather totalitarians who hate the Second Amendment.
looney idiot ping
Thanks! I guess I should have done more research but my blood was boiling when I read the story. My grandkids love to come to our farm and shoot their guns, I was worried we wouldn’t be able to buy ammo for them to practice. They retrieve all the empty shells before they go home.
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