Post by Hunt4Ever on Apr 21, 2009 21:30:14 GMT -5
Man this just sucks!!
I got this e-mail from my dad, and it really opened up my eyes...
What is he going to do next? He's fixed the banking business; knows exactly how to fix the auto industry. Is going to kill NASCAR (part of the "plan" is for GM and Chrysler to immediately cease all of their racing operations as they are unnecessary expenses). Now he's applying his expertise to ammunition makers. We should be so proud to have him as our leader.
Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . (they sell 9 mm, .45, etc ammo). They normally buy spent brass from the US Dept of Defense(DoD) 'one time used' shell casings by our Military from training on Military bases, etc. They buy the brass and then re-load for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Shops, Gun Clubs, Wal-Mart, and etc.
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 said that from now on the DoD will be destroying the brass - shredding it. It is no longer available to the Ammo makers - unless they just 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 Ammo manufacturers have been paying...plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do all the accounting paperwork.. That sure helps the US economy now, doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China - and do not sell shells at all to a proven US business. Any agenda working here?
Obama going after our ammunition!!!!!
The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week - and the DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell casings 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 SHELLS TO RELOAD DIFFERENT CALIBERS - MAINLY .223 BULLETS.
Georgia Arms owner says that he will have to lay off at least Half of his 60 workers, within 2 - 3 months if the DoD no longer sells their spent brass to him. He has 2 - 3
months inventory of shells to use. By summer - he's out. If he has to buy new manufactured brass shells, then the cost of ammunition to the buyer will double and
triple...plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.
You can read the info and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here: The Shootist Site
www.theshootist.net/
IN GOD WE TRUST
H4E
I got this e-mail from my dad, and it really opened up my eyes...
What is he going to do next? He's fixed the banking business; knows exactly how to fix the auto industry. Is going to kill NASCAR (part of the "plan" is for GM and Chrysler to immediately cease all of their racing operations as they are unnecessary expenses). Now he's applying his expertise to ammunition makers. We should be so proud to have him as our leader.
Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . (they sell 9 mm, .45, etc ammo). They normally buy spent brass from the US Dept of Defense(DoD) 'one time used' shell casings by our Military from training on Military bases, etc. They buy the brass and then re-load for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Shops, Gun Clubs, Wal-Mart, and etc.
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 said that from now on the DoD will be destroying the brass - shredding it. It is no longer available to the Ammo makers - unless they just 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 Ammo manufacturers have been paying...plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do all the accounting paperwork.. That sure helps the US economy now, doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China - and do not sell shells at all to a proven US business. Any agenda working here?
Obama going after our ammunition!!!!!The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week - and the DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell casings 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 SHELLS TO RELOAD DIFFERENT CALIBERS - MAINLY .223 BULLETS.
Georgia Arms owner says that he will have to lay off at least Half of his 60 workers, within 2 - 3 months if the DoD no longer sells their spent brass to him. He has 2 - 3
months inventory of shells to use. By summer - he's out. If he has to buy new manufactured brass shells, then the cost of ammunition to the buyer will double and
triple...plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.
You can read the info and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here: The Shootist Site
www.theshootist.net/
IN GOD WE TRUST
H4E
