I don't normally post this kinda stuff but this one really upset me, I had to edit it for all the redneck bs.... wait, this is still redneck BS - shotty.

 

This will make your blood boil!

 

UNBELIEVABLE... PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON .

 

This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the heck 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? This administration is 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 they 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

I knew this, pretty much anything used from the millarty shell, ammo boxes etc you wont be able to buy anymore because of that bad word here.

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

 

Always check before forwarding these kinds of things

I had heard somewhere that Snopes isn't always accurate so I did not check, but that is nice to know. Thanks Fatty

i love how one thing on the internet cant be reliable (china.. communist bastards etc etc) but another can with an absolutely absured comment like that roumer mongered thing above.. guess a DoD linked article on snopes wasnt enough..

Its the internet full of lies, or how ever you wish to see it.

It wasn't a lie, the DoD did review this issue and let things go back to the way they were.

True, they made a decision without thinking of every single possibility. It happens. Then they fixed the mistake, but after things were blown completely out of proportion.