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

[Westley Annis]

Understand this is not the United States government doing this per say, but
the Obama administration trying to inflict its unwanted communist regime
agenda on the rest of America.  Once we elect a Republican come November,
all this will come to end in January.



-----Original Message-----
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!