Georgia Arms

[4949shooter]

I just got this in an email:


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...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 the govt 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

[Geeman]

How about this link?

http://www.govliquidation.com/c/fired-brass.html&cm_sp=Banners-_-scrap-bottom-_-fired-brass

Greg

[Chicho]

2009...

[The_Shadow]

Yes, that was old info, and it took an act of congress to make the anti gun crowd understand then have that order overturned.

But it did show just how quickly these kind of decisions can impact everyone!

[4949shooter]

Didn't realize this had been overturned. At least that's good to hear.

It also goes to show how long people will keep an email floating around.