ras1954
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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.ht
ml
<http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.h
tml>
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!
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.ht
ml
<http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.h
tml>
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!
