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Military Creating a Shortage of Brass
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| May 21, 2010
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Posted on 05/27/2010 11:20:36 AM PDT by DrNo
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The military is again shredding once-fired brass for scrap (part of a "recycling" program); we need to urge our representatives and senators (we need a sponsor on the Senate side) to pass this. Without it, law enforcement, and civilian shooters will face worsening ammunition shortages (especially .223/5.56) and rising prices.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:20:37 AM PDT
by
DrNo
To: DrNo
wouldn’t selling it to civilians be a more “green” way to recycle the brass anyway?
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:29:00 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
To: absolootezer0; Joe Brower; marktwain
The point is to try to dry up a cheap plentiful supply of military-caliber ammo to mere civilian peons.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:30:24 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: DrNo
Leftists love shortages. It’s one of their trademark secrets to running a tyranny successfully.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:31:48 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: DrNo
I noticed congress already made them stop chopping up serviceable guns. Obviously the cases are more valuable than the brass in them.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:33:03 AM PDT
by
yarddog
To: absolootezer0
Yup, makes you wonder doesn’t it?
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:40:06 AM PDT
by
DrNo
("Facts are stubborn things..." John Adams)
To: Travis McGee
Those evenings I spent sweeping up that range the Fibbies use look like a pretty good investment of time right now.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:42:07 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; wku man; SLB; ..
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:44:40 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: Travis McGee
Ding ding ding! We have a winnah!
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
rickb308
(Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
To: Joe Brower
Wait a minute. I realize I’m slow, but the article says the Ellsworth amendment prohibits the destruction of once-fired brass. How is this bad or creating a shortage?
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:48:56 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I can see November from my house!)
To: Obadiah
It is bad because a large number of companies re-manufacture the empties into new cartridges. Many, maybe most Police departments use re manufactured ammo almost elusively for practice.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:53:49 AM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Lurker
I used to teach skeet shooting at a large Southern University. Our range was also the police dept. firing range. Sometimes between classes, I would sit in bleachers they had and watch them.
When no one was there I would often go out and scrounge a few hundred empty 9mm cases. I stopped when my assistant mentioned that the PD had a contract with a reloader to pick up their used brass.
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:56:37 AM PDT
by
yarddog
To: DrNo
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posted on
05/27/2010 11:57:58 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Obama, get a mop for this oil.)
To: yarddog; Travis McGee
I've got a couple of thousand once fired Winchester .40 cal cases in my garage that I'm shipping to a buddy over the weekend. I have no use for them.
I really wish they'd go back to .45. LOL
Now I did manage to scrounge up a few thousand LC 7.62 cases a few years back when I friend and I volunteered to sweep up a police range that's used by multiple jurisdictions.
We had so much of the stuff we rented a small cement mixer to clean them up. It would have taken a month to do it in my vibratory bowl polisher. With that thing we knocked them out in a weekend and split them up.
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posted on
05/27/2010 12:03:14 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: yarddog
The Ellsworth amendment, offered by U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), compels military bases to sell small arms ammunition and ammunition components intact meaning not demilitarized for scrap -- as long as these items aren't "unserviceable or unsafe." "This is a significant victory for law-abiding sportsmen, especially during these trying economic times.
Huh? How is this bad?
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posted on
05/27/2010 12:07:22 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I can see November from my house!)
To: Lurker
I have 150-250 once shot Remington and Winchester .38 Special brass...that I would give to a FReeper...you just pay the shipping.
Let me know.....
To: Osage Orange
Thanks very much but I don’t shoot that caliber. I will ask around though.
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posted on
05/27/2010 12:10:23 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Lurker
To: Obadiah
To: green iguana
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posted on
05/27/2010 12:55:54 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I can see November from my house!)
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