More Obama mis-direction...... beware Pilgrims!!

After losing the Washington DC 2nd Amendment case in the Supreme Court, Obamanation and his beltway cabal have obviously decided to sneak in the back door. If they can't take our weapons away --- they'll take away the ammunition and we'll be left with wood and metal clubs on our gun racks. Here is just the latest example:

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 Departments across the country, Gun Clubs, and Gun Shops. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.

This spring, Obamanation's new 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 is 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 recently. The DOD contacted him 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 huge tax on each round.

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

One of the more salient comments posted to this latest example of O's socialist programs reminded us that Law Enforcement Agencies (your local police department) are some of the greatest users of this reloaded ammo in their training programs. The point being, that we the tax payers have to buy that ammo for police training -- and we are once again, gonna get bit in the pocketbook when these law enforcement agencies have to start paying double and triple prices for their ammo.