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!
No problem....I appreciate all ideas! I should have researched more before I posted.
I used to be a neighbor to a lady that worked at Georgia arms.
Still, there’s something about that cummings reference to that “nipponized bit of the third avenue el in the top of his head” convincing the doubter of Japanese imperial intentions. Our country has seen this movie before. Hasn’t anyone learned anything?
Pardon the non-working link to the ee cummings poem, “plato told”. It is here > http://everything2.com/title/plato+told
I thought this had been cleared up a long time ago. This came up a couple of years ago.
Friday night staying at a hotel in Crystal City and looking out the window at the US Capitol Building. My first reaction was to flip it the middle finger with emphasis.
I have since apologized to the building itself for it has more honor than most of the vermin creeps who walk it’s floors.
“PROOF THAT WE HAVE IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON”
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WHO and why WOULD ANYONE WaNT PROOF???
Sorry, GrannyK - the date of this article,please note, is “Sunday, March 15, 2009”
When that directive came out, the sh*t hit the fan.
and the gov’t pulled in it's horns quick.
that is not to say, however, that they aren't intent on implementing it. After all, they have it on the shelves.
Please see here the sequence of events last year:
http://www.ms-sportsman.com/printer_friendly.php?id=366
Sunday, Aprl 30, 2009
Excerpt” On Tuesday afternoon, six days after the directive was issued, DOD rescinded the order, announcing it would once again allow the sale of unmutilated military brass to the civilian market. The threat had been averted.
Expecting the new administration to make a move against guns, everyone naturally assumed this was a back-door attempt to limit firearm use in the U.S. by the new administration.
After all, remove the bullets, and the guns are useless, right?
On Wednesday, the National Rifle Association announced the decision to rescind sales was one that had been discussed months before — a broad plan to examine all military surplus sales to ensure hardware did not end up being sold eventually to terrorists and used against us.
According to the NRA, the directive was issued to give the DOD time to examine whether expended brass actually posed such a threat. Once it was determined it was safe to sell such material on the civilian market, the directive was lifted.
Of course, we all know how slow any government agency reacts to change. This had to be a new record for decision-making in a bureaucracy — such drastic actions were ordered and rescinded in a mere six days.
I personally believe the firestorm of criticism had a lot to do with the rapid cancellation of the order. But it doesn’t matter what caused it; the good news is the pipeline is still intact.”
So this dastardly plan was nipped in the bud and at a unprecedented speed. Though they would like to do this, I doubt they'll bring it up again in a hurry.
So as one granny to another, a word of caution: CHECK the DATE! (You scarred me to death! I knew we had shoved this back in the cave a year ago and I thought “OH NO! NOT AGAIN!”
Otherwise, you did a good job posting ;o) don't be discouraged.
Old... order rescinded.
Tyrants always prefer a disarmed peasantry. Or as less-armed as possible.
Good post!
Important issue.
You did good. You found out who posts to a thread without reading most of the comments. Good job.
ping
I buy re-loads from Georgia Arms. Nice guys.
It’s to keep the reloaded ammo out of civilian hands. That’s the ONLY reason I can think of.
No proof is needed to assume that DC is populated by people as stupid as a box of rocks.
No doubt in my mind.
Since I am still learning....how did you add all of the pictures and all to your bio page? That is really neat.
ping
Stimulatinng the economy? Let's get real here.
This is about going around the Second Amendment.
"The power to tax is the power to destroy" has never been clearer. 500% tax on ammunition? Suppose the fascists imposed a new tax on churches; say annually $1000 per parishoner. How would that be any different?
Time for a plea to the Supreme Court toot sweet!
I see no violation of the Constitution by shredding the cases and destroying the value, thus wasting colossal amounts of money. Government does that all the time.
There is no Constitutional prohibition against that! Although I would argue that that constitutes lack od due diligence is fiduciary responsibility to the American taxpayer, and incompetence in governance.
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