I got this e-mail from work and thought it was interesting. This article is about Georgia Arms. They buy spent brass from the DOD and in turn polish and reload for resale. The article speaks for itself.

 This
is totally crazy and it should make you want to
slap the idiots in Washington DC
from Obama all the way down.

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
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