Posted on 03/27/2010 5:26:40 AM PDT by marktwain
MINNEAPOLIS, MN --(AmmoLand.com)- ATK is a strong supporter of our armed forces, the shooting sports industry, second amendment rights and all of our customers who choose to reload ammunition.
In fact, ATK is a leader in the reloading market. The dated brochure and presentation have caused confusion in the marketplace and do not reflect the views of our company and will be immediately withdrawn.
As a service to our military customers, we routinely handle demil operations for various munitions and respond to requests from military installations for reclamation and recycling of military items.
Each contract is awarded through the military installation’s procurement process. The installations received fair value for the brass.
ATK fully supports the provision passed by Congress last year to ensure that demilitarized spent brass casings remain available for civilian use. Amanda Covington ATK Armament Systems
Was that press release written on one of those musical Hallmark cards? It certainly seems there was an awful lot of dancing going on without a real answer.
Well, Amanda, you and you company are sure dancing around the non answer. Minnesota have anything to do with how you address, important issues. With apologies in advance to Americans living in the State of Minnesota.
ATK fully supports the provision passed by Congress last year to ensure that demilitarized spent brass casings remain available for civilian use.
Call up a company like Dallas Reloaders and ask if they’re having a problem getting brass.
I'm a reloader, and wouldn't be surprised, if you are, too. When we reloaders say, "brass", we're talking about reloadable cartridge cases.
When the government shreds (or has shredded) reloadable cartridge cases, all that is left is the metal, (Cu/Zn) "Brass".
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Maybe we should calculate the "carbon footprint" (energy cost) of
1) Fabricating the Brass into cases in the first place (wasted)
2) The shredding operation (senseless)
3) Re-fabricating the Brass into new cases.
(I don't buy all this "carbon footprint" crap -- but we might as well use their own liberal idiocy right back against them!) ;-)
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I expect your question was rhetorical, and that you already know the answer. If so, what is it?
I reload mostly civilian calibers (with the exception of 9mm). What is the difference between “demilitarized” spent cases and the ones I police up off of my own range?
The more disturbing thing in all this isn’t the “recycling”, but that ATK thought a good way to sell the military on it was to claim that we - reloaders - were a threat.
The normal usage of “demilitarized” is “made ineffective for purposes limited to the military”, so I don't see how anyone could or would “demilitarize” brass cases that are legally available to ordinary citizens.
I don’t know but I thought if you were interested in the availability of military brass, the Dallas Reloaders would know if military brass is hard to get.
Military brass is thicker and the primer pockets are crimped.
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