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You may also want to read the snopes.com write up: http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/casings.asp
Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 ammo in America . They sell 9mm, .45, & .223 ammo. They 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 Gun Shops, Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, 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 by 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 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 does nothing to help the economy but it sure helps China ! Sell cheaper to China and do not sell at all to a proven US business? Is there a hidden agenda working here? Is 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 and DOD contacted him to say that they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. The 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 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: http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html
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