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- - By FixaLinc (****) Date 04-29-2010 02:51
You Gotta Read this one to believe it!!!

PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME 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
http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.ht
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itary.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 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!
Parent - - By waccobird (****) Date 04-29-2010 10:08
Fixalinc
Calm down
http://www.dla.mil/DLAPUBLIC/DLA_MEDIA_CENTER/PressRelease/PressRelease.aspx?ID=438
They changed their decision.
Marshall
Parent - - By Lawrence (*****) Date 04-29-2010 11:44
Yeah.. This is old news.

The NRA reports that sales of the spent casings to the reloaders were actually only held up for about a week.

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12244
Parent - - By FixaLinc (****) Date 05-03-2010 18:55
I expected response from you two :P  Yeah I know it's old news go read your snopes. lol
Parent - - By Lawrence (*****) Date 05-03-2010 20:41
So you knew it was old news and that nobody was hurt... No freedom was supressed and no money or jobs were lost..

So pretty much a dishonest ploy to get people upset...

The government does enough legitimate screwing up doesn't it?

Why invent troubles when there are plenty of real ones out there to expose?
Parent - - By ssbn727 (*****) Date 05-03-2010 21:08
Hi Larry!

Does the word: "Troll" come to mind when one reads these type of responses and posts??? :) ;) ;) I'll leave it at that buddy! ;)

Respectfully,
Henry
Parent - By FixaLinc (****) Date 05-04-2010 18:16
The word JACK ASS come to mind you sobs.
Parent - By nevadanick (**) Date 05-09-2010 23:18
i agree theres enough negativity floating around in this world
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