No more ammo?

[jryan26]

What do you think? Truth or BS?

This is very troubling. I can tell you the availability of ammo is really
poor right now. If this is true, we need to get this out to everyone we know
and stop this attempt to disarm our 2nd amendment rights. Please forward to
every one you know.
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> Step 1 in disarming of Americans
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> This is a call to arms
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> Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America .
> They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition.
> They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense.
> Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training
purposes.
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> They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to
> Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart.
> They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.
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> This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him
> that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it.
> It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they 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 the ammo makers have
> been paying, plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and
> do the accounting paperwork.
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> This sure helps the economy now doesn't it?
> Sell cheaper to China , and do not sell at all to a proven US business.
> Any hidden agenda working here?
> Obama is going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!!
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> The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had
> already purchased a load of brass last week.
> The DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to
> make sure it was destroyed.
> Shell cases he had already bought!
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> The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/shredded/melted.
> The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload
> different calibers, mainly .223 bullets.
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> The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of
his 60 workers,
> within 2-3 months if the DoD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the
industry.
> Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out.
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> If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases,
> then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple,
> plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.
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> You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here:
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> The Shootist Site
> http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/d...-military.html
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[fund razor]

Thankfully, this was short lived.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/casings.asp

[Chris]

OFB is a tiny sliver of American sporting ammo supply. But it could gain in popularity. The markets were flooded with surplus ammo over the last decade. 7.62 x 39 was so plentiful and so cheap after the fall of communism that dealers were importing ships full of SKS rifles ( a real POS) so people could burn the stuff up. 5.56 and 7.62 x 51 were also plentiful, coming from NATO countries. That stuff pretty much has dried up.

[fund razor]

OFB is a tiny sliver of American sporting ammo supply. But it could gain in popularity. The markets were flooded with surplus ammo over the last decade. 7.62 x 39 was so plentiful and so cheap after the fall of communism that dealers were importing ships full of SKS rifles ( a real POS) so people could burn the stuff up. 5.56 and 7.62 x 51 were also plentiful, coming from NATO countries. That stuff pretty much has dried up.

Dam Phragle.

[Trim'd Up]

I was talking to a buddy of mine that owns a gun shop the other day and he claims that ammo is starting to get more plentiful. He is getting more of his orders filled sooner than he has been in the tha last 6 months. Hopefully he is right. The price and availabilit suck right now.