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 ...
Your cement mixer story reminds me of a improvised linker we had to cobble up in Desert Storm.
We had to clean up some links (M15A2) for 50 cal for an M85 gun on a M60A3 tank we (EOD) were using as a improvised engineering vehicle with an M9 (now a Mk126) dozer blade on it....... Our MaDuce ammo (M9 or M2 links) wouldn’t fit ....... had a EOD team in Germany ship us a pallet of fired M85 links as we weren’t AUTHORIZED to have M85 ammo so we had to strip out M2 ammo and roll our own. Cleaned the dirty muddy links off with a cement mixer and sand.......used a couple of 2x12’s, a chain saw and hummer to make our own linker. Cut the boards laid out the links and ammo, laid on second 2x12 and rolled the tire of the hummer down our “linking” machine. Click click click click etc ......:o)
Functioned flawless........:o)
shortage of balls, too.
The Ellsworth amendment hasn’t passed yet. They are shredding the brass until it does.
We need to make sure it get signed into law!
IT’S not bad; it needs to be signed into law!
We thought it was stopped,but some bases are currently shredding brass.
God Bless the American fighting man. Improvise, Overcome, Adapt [ regardless of service branch :) ]
That's using your head!
Improvise, adapt, and overcome!
Every day.......:0)
The military in general seems to have a destruction mentality when it comes to surplus items. Chop, bury, end.
http://www.govliquidation.com/index.html
enter keyword “brass” and hit enter
or
click on picture on left side of front page “Surplus on Demand”, new window opens, under “Categories” click “Fired Brass”
From Tom Gresham's Gun Talk:
Indiana Representative Brad Ellsworth called the show to go over his amendment to the House Armed Services Committee's National Defense Authorization bill to re-sell military small arms ammunition. Rep. Ellsworth encouraged everyone to get involved, and contact their Senators and Representatives about gun legislation, including this bill.
http://www.guntalk.com/site.php?pageID=15&newsID=129
SEC. 347. COMMERCIAL SALE OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION
IN EXCESS OF MILITARY REQUIREMENTS.
(a) COMMERCIAL SALE OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION.—Small arms ammunition and ammunition components in excess of military requirements, including fired cartridge cases, which is not otherwise prohibited from commercial sale or certified by the Secretary of Defense as unserviceable or unsafe, may not be demilitarized or destroyed and shall be made available for commercial sale.
Here’s the Culprit:
“Qualified Recycling Program”
Check out Page 2, “Firing range expended brass.”
...and more profitable.
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