Greetings,
I was sent this email containing the following comments. I hoping that that some of you can help me verify or confirm the accuracy of this article.
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 likeWal-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 manufactured brass cases,
then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to
add a 500% tax on each shell.
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!
Ed Sutton, USMC Retired
