[StBernard] Brass Shell Casings - You Gotta Read this one to believe it!!

[Westley Annis]

 PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON


 This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the hell  
 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? 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.html < https://webmail.metrobrokers.com/ 
 exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod- 
 ends-sale-of-expended-military.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!