Posted on 03/17/2009 7:47:08 PM PDT by Viking2002
A recent government policy change has taken a bite out of the nation's already stressed ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find bullets for private gun owners.
Georgia Arms is a company that for the last 15 years has been purchasing fired brass shell casings from the Department of Defense and private government surplus liquidators. The military collects the discarded casings from fired rounds, then sells them through liquidators to companies like Georgia Arms that remanufacture the casings into ammunition for the law enforcement and civilian gun owner communities.
But earlier this month, Georgia Arms received a canceled order, informed by its supplier that the government now requires fired brass casings be mutilated, in other words, destroyed to a scrap metal state.
The policy change, handed down from the Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency, cuts a supply leg out from underneath ammunition manufacturers.
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Watch out for what they do to primers next.
This reminds me of what Clinton did with surplus firearms.
“.....brass (copper and steel)?”
Brass an alloy of mostly Cu (copper) and Zn (zinc).
Hard to take Durbin’s word for anything. Illinois has offered up some pretty sorry senators. US Govt has surplussed brass for a long time, and has tried varying offerings ostensibly to get the best return for Uncle. If brass finds it’s way to the civilian market it gives the anti-firearms zealots an avenue to disrupt civilian sales they can’t achieve legislatively. Anyway, doubtful the so called cartels waste any time with US brass or firearms, but rather prob’ly get plenty of Russian or Chicom arms and steel-cased ammo at a discount.
There’s the feds gun control. Prices going up and up and ammo getting harder to get. Isn’t that a surprise. I’ll keep buying and buying while I can.
Fortunately Captain Crunch did not get nearly all the M-14s. Most have been refurbished, as required and at minimum and are doing duty with "Designated Marksmen" (very often recruits from the "gun culture") in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Seems to be fixed already.
Which is different...
gThis is apparently one of the few things they can't blame on "global warming" or "corporate greed".
PING
Many, many thanks for your post. Rescending that DOD order is the best news I have heard in a long time? Thank you for keeping us informed.
I sure enjoyed blowing off all my old ammo this month.
I kinda miss all the guns I sold but I needed the money
thanks to Obama’s stimulus package and the fact I’m now
unemployed.
But I’ve learned alot about potato guns.
Do you think Obama will restrict potatos?
What won’t he restrict so I can plan properly?
Woo hoo! If they cave this quickly, maybe they will cave again when we get REALLY mad.
There is no price too high, to have the means to fight.
Stinkin ZERO defeated again after a horrific, disgusting attept to deat the Second Amendment! Are people finally going to get sick of having a closet Muslim Arab fraudulently holding the Office of POTUS and concealing his KENYAN CITIZENSHIP in Violation of Our U.S. Constitution which he deviously tried to have Nullified since ZERO doesn’t “LIKE” that section of IT!:-(
The bastard in chief may spark a backlash like none we’ve ever seen.
Invest in precious metals like lead, brass, blued steel, stainless steel, copper jacketed base metals, tungsten, etc in whatever quantities you can afford.
I do.
Relax, its fixed THIS TIME! Wait till the next attack! It’s Coming! Napolitano in charge of HLS!! a Barfing Laugh for any Terrorist or Criminal! She doesn’t even APPROVE of using the word ‘TERRORIST!” Rendell said she was a ‘Great Choice” for HLS because she is “UNMARRIED!” GOD! Thats the Honest Truth, Rendell really said that stupid, Dangerous Comment! Napolitano has outlawed Vibrators because they may “Stimulate Man-made Disasters!” in her warped opinion.
Ping!
folks 2010 is just around the corner.
Michael Steel is an idiot but he can not control the local GOP clubs/parties.
TAKE OVER YOUR LOCAL GOP. Go in with a group and get yourselves elected to party office.
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