*PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME REAL IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON*
*This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap 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
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
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!** *
I’d already heard about this and sent e-mails to the Clueless Three (Inouye, Akaka and Hirono) in Washington regarding this issue. Not a response from a one of them on this issue (though Akaka DID thank me for supporting the DISCLOSE Act when I sent him a letter vehemently opposing it.)
The link looks like the issue has been resolved. Hopefully the idiot within the DoD that devised that plan has been fired!!
I got an update on this from one of our TEA party fact checkers.
Thanks,
She looked at snopes and another fact check website they both confirmed what Georgia arms own webpage does – that the gov’t did try to do that last year and 3 or 4 days later they reversed their decision and Georgia arms is back in business. What is not accurate is that the letter says it is all just happening, rather than that it happened last year and the decision was reversed.