We have been told that there is no effort to take guns away from us. But when ammo is made unavailable what are we going to do? Throw your gun at someone.
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 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 <
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 you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're
fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action. Act now while you
still can, or stay silent, roll over, and watch our country die!
