collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: surplus brass  (Read 1300 times)

Offline runningboard

  • Site Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 1496
surplus brass
« on: March 02, 2012, 07:26:27 PM »
got this in an e-mail from Hunter Education staff, didn't research myself to check validity but considering source didn't feel I needed to.
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!


 
Vote the Him out in 2012 !!!
Romans 14:2 he who eats only vegetables is weak
Genesis 27:3 Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me

Offline SemperFidelis97

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2010
  • Posts: 2266
  • Location: Graham
Re: surplus brass
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 07:39:03 PM »
Its funny you hear more, and more stories like this.  The democrates will not bring up gun issues in an election year, but will try to subvert the industry in any way they can.  This is just another reason why 2012 will be the most important election of most of our lives Obama has to go period.  Thanks for sharing.

Offline Sumpnneedskillin

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 1614
  • Location: Pomeroy WA
Re: surplus brass
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 07:48:15 PM »
Bad news....it appears this is from 2009 and no longer valid. 

I'm still digging but I guess there was something introduced to do this but it was pulled.  I keep digging some to see if it hasn't been revived.
What's the most dangerous thing said in the US Navy? -- A Chief Petty Officer saying "Watch this s$%^!!"

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'"
President John F. Kennedy

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Mill creek watershed by 3cityhuntr
[Today at 08:38:16 AM]


Stop Moving Dead Deer Outside of 100 Series GMUs by HUNTIN4SIX
[Today at 08:00:20 AM]


Bullet performance 2025? by Antlershed
[Today at 07:55:29 AM]


I'm Going To Need Karl To Come up With That 290 Muley Sunscreen Bug Spray Combo by Pathfinder101
[Today at 07:06:32 AM]


2025 deer, let's see em! by teanawayslayer
[Today at 06:41:25 AM]


Big bear on trail cam Kitsap County by Alchase
[Today at 06:40:42 AM]


Bear That Hasn’t Missed Many Meals by Alchase
[Today at 06:38:03 AM]


King of the mountain caught sleeping by HntnFsh
[Today at 06:32:37 AM]


Called about Returned Alta Buck Permit by Limhangerslayer
[Yesterday at 11:07:39 PM]


Youth Cow Elk - Yakima South GMUs 364, 368 by Limhangerslayer
[Yesterday at 10:58:51 PM]


Taneum Elk Cow tag problem by Hiker82
[Yesterday at 09:28:54 PM]


Mt. St. Helens Goat by X-Force
[Yesterday at 08:22:35 PM]


Coupeville Highway pop-up blind by BigredRusch
[Yesterday at 08:19:51 PM]


GMU 336 by MADMAX
[Yesterday at 08:18:06 PM]


Recommendations for Pressure Washers by Fastass350
[Yesterday at 08:15:00 PM]


2025 blacktail rut thread by Crunchy
[Yesterday at 08:12:44 PM]


Selkirk bull moose. by X-Force
[Yesterday at 08:07:09 PM]


Gutpile Care, yes there is such a thing. by highcountry_hunter
[Yesterday at 07:50:37 PM]


Winthrop - Winter Range Road Closures by shotguunar
[Yesterday at 07:36:52 PM]


Auto repair shop Spokane by walt
[Yesterday at 04:13:25 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal