Posted on 05/27/2010 11:20:36 AM PDT by DrNo
This week, by a unanimous voice vote, an NRA-backed amendment was added to the House Armed Services Committee's National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5136) that will ensure serviceable and once-fired small arms cartridge cases are available for commercial sale.
The Ellsworth amendment, offered by U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), compels military bases to sell small arms ammunition and ammunition components intact – meaning not demilitarized for scrap -- as long as these items aren't "unserviceable or unsafe."
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
wouldn’t selling it to civilians be a more “green” way to recycle the brass anyway?
The point is to try to dry up a cheap plentiful supply of military-caliber ammo to mere civilian peons.
Leftists love shortages. It’s one of their trademark secrets to running a tyranny successfully.
I noticed congress already made them stop chopping up serviceable guns. Obviously the cases are more valuable than the brass in them.
Yup, makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Those evenings I spent sweeping up that range the Fibbies use look like a pretty good investment of time right now.
Ding ding ding! We have a winnah!
Wait a minute. I realize I’m slow, but the article says the Ellsworth amendment prohibits the destruction of once-fired brass. How is this bad or creating a shortage?
It is bad because a large number of companies re-manufacture the empties into new cartridges. Many, maybe most Police departments use re manufactured ammo almost elusively for practice.
I used to teach skeet shooting at a large Southern University. Our range was also the police dept. firing range. Sometimes between classes, I would sit in bleachers they had and watch them.
When no one was there I would often go out and scrounge a few hundred empty 9mm cases. I stopped when my assistant mentioned that the PD had a contract with a reloader to pick up their used brass.
I really wish they'd go back to .45. LOL
Now I did manage to scrounge up a few thousand LC 7.62 cases a few years back when I friend and I volunteered to sweep up a police range that's used by multiple jurisdictions.
We had so much of the stuff we rented a small cement mixer to clean them up. It would have taken a month to do it in my vibratory bowl polisher. With that thing we knocked them out in a weekend and split them up.
"This is a significant victory for law-abiding sportsmen, especially during these trying economic times.
Huh? How is this bad?
Let me know.....
Thanks very much but I don’t shoot that caliber. I will ask around though.
Thanks-
It’s not bad. People are still reacting to what happened a year ago and then earlier this year when ATK (the Co. that runs Lake City) tried to get various military bases to shred their brass. This amendment would prevent that, tho’ I believe ATK has already stopped their misguided effort. See this link:
Thanks.
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