Brass shell casings

[hookset]

Brass Shell Casings! You've got to read this one to believe it!
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> I TRUST THAT YOU'VE HEARD OF THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND AND ALL
> FALLING INTO A DITCH!!
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> PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME MENTAL INCOMPETENCE IN OUR WASHINGTON
> LEADERSHIP!
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> This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the (HUM) out of
> the (HUMS) that we have in our Washington DC leadership.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This week the DoD (Dept. of Defense) wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia
> Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent
> brass and 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).
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> 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.
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> 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. These
> were shell cases that he had already bought!
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> The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed, shredded or
> melted.
> The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different
> calibers, mainly .223 bullets.
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> 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 and
> by summer they're out.
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> If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufactured brass cases, then
> the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add
> a 500% tax on each shell.
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> You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here:
> The Shootist Site
> http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod- ... itary.html
> <http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod- ... itary.html>
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> If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing, then 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!
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> 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!
>

[S.R.Patch]

Actions and consequences, write it down for your grandchildren, history's in the making...

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budget ... t0aGVndWxm

[Collins Country]

Dont worry, Pine Not will blame Bush for it!

[green river]

Here is some updated information:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/casings.asp

[Newt]

It would be interesting, at a time when small business is under attack and we are losing jobs, who made the original decision to quit selling brass shell casings to small arms dealers.

The beat goes on.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

THIS LETTER WAS PASSED AROUND BEFORE OR, ONE LIKE IT .I DIDN'T LIKE THEN, AND DON'T LIKE ANY BETTER THIS TIME AROUND.AS AN AVID RELOADER, I'AM VERY AWARE OF HOW HARD IT IS TO GET BRASS ANYORE.
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Military Cartridge Brass Destruction 2010 – Round 2
by Gary Marbut


Montana Shooting Sports Association
Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- The cure that was arranged by Montana Senators Baucus and Tester to fix the intended military destruction of once-fired cartridge brass last year appears to be suffering from a fatal end-run.

Interested persons will remember that a year ago, helpful intervention by Montana’s senators persuaded the Department of Defense to rescind a fresh DoD directive to military installation commanders requiring them to destroy once-fired brass, prior to selling it at auction into the civilian marketplace for ammunition reloading and other purposes.

An end-run is being done around the rescinding order through quiet and sweetheart side deals with installation commanders that is being aggressively promoted by ATK.

Some characters must be introduced to explain this story. ATK/Alliant Techsystems is the defense contractor that currently has the contract to operate the Army’s huge Lake City Arsenal, the last government-owned facility in the U.S. for production of small arms military ammunition. While other contracts to operate Lake City have been cost-plus, the contract ATK arranged allows ATK to retain profits of operation. Although government/private partnerships always seem to be strange creatures, the nature of the government/ATK partnership may be stranger than most.

Government Liquidation is another private entity that has an exclusive government franchise to sell surplus military equipment, from all military installations nationwide, to all bidders.

Until recently, most used cartridge brass sales were put up for public bid through Government Liquidations, bids available to scrap metal purchasers, foundries processing brass, and specialized cartridge brass processors that reconditioned millions of surplus cartridge brass for sale to commercial reloaders of civilian ammunition, and to civilians for ammunition loading. The steady supply of reloadable brass from military sources has been a sizable and essential component of the currently stressed ammunition market in the U.S.

Although the private Government Liquidations retains a fee for the auction services it provides, the bulk of income from Government Liquidations’ sales of surplus military property is directed into the U.S. Treasury, to be reallocated and appropriated by Congress, as needed.
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-JUST PART OF THE ARTICAL-BUT I CANNOT FIND ANY, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLCAN ,CONGRESSMEN OR SENATOR'S,TRYING TO HELP STOP THIS ,NOR CAN I FIND ANY CONNECTION TO THE PRESIDENT .
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-NOW- THE QUESTION IS- HOW- CAN WE STOP IT,,SINCE THE CONGRESS IS GETTING THE MONEY.