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 i s 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 o ff 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 want 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 you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action. Act now while you still can, or stay silent, roll over, and watch our country die!
12 comments:
This is a very sad day in my life.
It is obvious that we are on the verge of a revolution. The south will rise again!
This is old news.. the policy was rescinded a few weeks ago by Dod after the outcry from all over the US.
One more reason to take an hour of your weekend, review what's on the docket, and write your congressmen!
EVERY WEEK!
What a bullsh*t post. Who cares. Oh pelase don't take my ammo..bla bla bla.
It won't seem like Bullsh*t when they come knocking on your door.
The pattern as it happened in Germany during the pre-World War II era, was to take a little of the people's freedom at time. Soon it will all be gone and they will never have noticed or cared.
Obama has led in an adminisitration that seems to have on its agenda the elimination of freedom that it does not agree with.
Everyone had better wake up, because the next freedom affected may be one that you do care about!
See you at the next Tea Party on July 4th!
10:08 - I bet all those people who may be laid off are concerned that China will be getting revenue from this deal while they're scrambling to support their families.
843 the kicker is that they would even try this, what will they try next and what wil they get away with the next time?
1008, please get off the crap pipe and get a job, or are you just living off Mommy and Daddy?
This is an example of how our government works its agenda against us. The new policy makes no sense from a financial point of view. Therefore we must conclude they are doing it to squash our ability to arm ourselves. Our government is wicked.
8:43 "This is old news.. the policy was rescinded a few weeks ago by Dod after the outcry from all over the US."
...and it was a Bush administration effort to make it harder to build IEDs. Obama had nothing to do with it except to rescind it.
10:54 "Obama has led in an adminisitration that seems to have on its agenda the elimination of freedom... See you at the next Tea Party on July 4th!"
Yea. Brilliant. You go do that.
12:04 The freeze on sale of spent casings has been rectified. There were never recycled sales to China under the freeze and all spent casings generated during the freeze are available for purchase. Ths was NOT a Bush action it was an Obama action to review all Bush decisions. Was it motivated by anti-gun factions within the Obama team? Who knows. What we do know is that it is a very simple act with dire consequences on our rights (making the exercise of a right more expensive = chilling affect on the citizenry). I am not a member, nor do I agree with all they say, but the NRA has a statement on this issues put out in March 2009.
http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12244
2:32 "Ths was NOT a Bush action..."
Of course it was. Why don't you read your own links. I found this in what you linked:
"DoD officials responsible for the demilitarization of military property temporarily halted the release of the cartridge cases last week, pending review of a policy change issued last year by the Office of the Secretary of Defense"
If it was done LAST YEAR, how can it be an Obama action. The Obama administration REVIEWED and then CANCELLED the policy change.
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