Thread: How to Take Away Your 2nd Amendment Rights?

Reverse the D.O.D. directive halting sale of expended military brass

To:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein

March 17, 2009

Dear Senator Feinstein:

It has come to my attention that the Department of Defense has issued a directive that all expended military brass (fired cases) will now be shredded and sold for scrap material, rather than resold by Government Liquidators LLC to the civilian market for remanufacture.

You may not be aware of it, but there is a severe shortage of ammunition available for sale to the public across the country, causing problems for shooters, hunters, and reloaders everywhere.

Now, apparently the Obama administration, realizing they cannot move against private firearms ownership since the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Washington D.C./Heller case, has made their move in another way.

By cutting off the resale of expended military ammunition to remanufacturers, they have put a stranglehold on the nation's ammunition supply.

Further, they have reduced the return to the government on expended brass by 80%. What was sold for remanufacturer at a fair return to the government, will now cost the taxpayers untold sums of money as the cost of scrap brass is far below the price per pound for expended military ammunition.

In addition, the use of remanufactured ammunition is a huge asset to law enforcement agencies across the country who buy millions of rounds of reloaded ammunition a year from these manufacturers for practice rounds.

With this market gone, law enforcement will no longer be able to purchase inexpensive reloaded ammunition, and with the continuing combat status of military forces across the Middle East, original manufacturers of new ammunition are turning out everything they can make to the government, thus exacerbating the shortage of new ammunition in both the civilian and law enforcement market.

Lastly, in these harsh economic times, does it not strike you as cold and calculating that the Obama administration has no compunction against ruining an industry that employs thousands of American citizens in the remanufacturing of sporting and military ammunition. One major resupplier, Georgia Arms, the fifth largest manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition has informed me he will have to quickly lay off half his 60-person workforce, as he has had to cancel contracts with dozens of police agencies who had contracted with him to supply them with remanufactured .223 ammunition.

Georgia Arms has been practically put out of business by this directive that all expended military brass must be shredded. His current contracts have been canceled, and he is notifying his customers across the country he can no longer supply their ammunition needs.

Please look into this immediately. This move by the Obama administration is nothing but a back-door strike against firearms ownership in this country--if shooters can't buy ammunition, the guns are little better than steel clubs--and this is obviously the intent.

Thank you for your time and efforts in this serious attack against the Second Amendment rights of the American citizenry.

Sincerely,

Richard L. Houston

Webmaster for TheObamaDisaster.com

This policy has since been reversed:

http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=720

"Responding to two Democratic senators representing outraged private gun owners, the Department of Defense announced last night it has scrapped a new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass.

The policy already had taken a bite out of the nation’s stressed ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find ammo for private gun owners.

Mark Cunningham, a legislative affairs representative with the Defense Logistics Agency, explained in an e-mail last night to the office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that the Department of Defense had placed small arms cartridge cases on its list of sensitive munitions items as part of an overall effort to ensure national security is not jeopardized in the sale of any Defense property.

The small arms cases were identified as a senstive item and were held pending review of policy, he said.

“Upon review, the Defense Logistics Agency has determined the cartridge cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for sale,â€

If it's been reversed, why is it that it is so hard to find ammo now?

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

If it's been reversed, why is it that it is so hard to find ammo now?

People are loading up for the future.

Originally Posted by WorriedAmerican

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

If it's been reversed, why is it that it is so hard to find ammo now?

People are loading up for the future.

That's it. Our local stores sell out as soon as ammo hits the shelf. Fortunately, we know someone in one of the stores that tips us off to new shipments.

People are concerned about the Dems enacting gun laws (and rightfully so) and so are buying guns and ammo just in case.

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Originally Posted by WorriedAmerican

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

If it's been reversed, why is it that it is so hard to find ammo now?

People are loading up for the future.

That's it. Our local stores sell out as soon as ammo hits the shelf. Fortunately, we know someone in one of the stores that tips us off to new shipments.

People are concerned about the Dems enacting gun laws (and rightfully so) and so are buying guns and ammo just in case.

Well, duh, I should have known that...I've been doing the same thing!

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Originally Posted by WorriedAmerican

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

If it's been reversed, why is it that it is so hard to find ammo now?

People are loading up for the future.

That's it. Our local stores sell out as soon as ammo hits the shelf. Fortunately, we know someone in one of the stores that tips us off to new shipments.

People are concerned about the Dems enacting gun laws (and rightfully so) and so are buying guns and ammo just in case.

Well, duh, I should have known that...I've been doing the same thing!

LOL You must have thought no on else would think of it!

I ask stupid questions every now and then.
This week my friend kept sending St Patricks Day emails. So I said, "oh, you have Irish in you too?"
"My mother is a Murphy."

She emails back ....... "Duh ..... Reilly?"

I had totally spaced her real name and was looking at her email name!