Is this for real?

AKbythebay · May 18, 2010

Got this in an email today. Anyone know if this is legit???

PROOF THAT WE HAVE IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON

This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the hell out of
the idiots we have in Washington DC.

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.

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.

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.

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 going after the Firearms Industry and our
ammunition!!

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!

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.

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.

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.

You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms
here:

The Sootist Site http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html

If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing you should
be! Be Afraid! Be Very Very Afraid! Get involved! It's Your Freedom and
Our Country They're Stealing! If You Fail to Act Now, there may not be
a Free United States tomorrow!

I implore you to get involved and forward this to as many people as you
can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with
what's going on in the name of stimulating our economy!

Inigoes · May 18, 2010

Old news, the issue has been rectified

AKbythebay · May 18, 2010

Inigoes said:
Old news, the issue has been rectified

OK, figured something like that. That's why I didn't want to post it as "fact"

jashu360 · Jul 7, 2011

how was it rectified

Inigoes · Jul 7, 2011

jashu360 said:
how was it rectified

Some .gov weinee revoked the order to scrap spent brass.

The initial confusion was due to a bunch of administrative newbs, who didn't know what they were doing.

PS - It is of my opinion that they still don't :lol2:

jashu360 · Jul 7, 2011

Inigoes said:
Some .gov weinee revoked the order to scrap spent brass.

The initial confusion was due to a bunch of administrative newbs, who didn't know what they were doing.

PS - It is of my opinion that they still don't

ahh thanks for the info. i got this email yesterday (so it is still going around) and immediately searched the forum to see if it was true

rpker · Jul 7, 2011

the internets never forget....even stupidity

How many times have we seen the totally debunked

like Mr. rodgers being a marine sniper with hundreds of kills to his credit

john_bud · Jul 7, 2011

rpker said:
the internets never forget....even stupidity

How many times have we seen the totally debunked

like Mr. rodgers being a marine sniper with hundreds of kills to his credit

Or ALL presidents being born in America ! :innocent0

scrovak · Jul 8, 2011

john_bud said:
Or ALL presidents being born in America !

Our first president wasn't born in America.

Boondock Saint · Jul 8, 2011

scrovak said:
Our first president wasn't born in America.

Well, he was born in "America," but he wasn't born in the United States, just as the next six presidents were not. Martin Van Buren (who was also the first president to not speak English as his first language), was the first president born in the US.

Dead Eye · Jul 8, 2011

scrovak said:
Our first president wasn't born in America.

He gave birth to America, as a "Founding Father", therefore, he was exempt. More than I can say for the current president, who is destroying it, whether intentional or not. Like Al Gore takes credit for giving birth to the internets, Obama takes credit for a recovering economy, both of which are false.

Kman · Jul 8, 2011

scrovak said:
Our first president wasn't born in America.

He just was willing to risk his life so that there could eventually be "Americans". The inverse is true today. Current office holder is doing what he can disolve America into the "one world" system.

Second Amendment · Jul 8, 2011

Dead Eye said:
He gave birth to America, as a "Founding Father", therefore, he was exempt. More than I can say for the current president, who is destroying it, whether intentional or not. Like Al Gore takes credit for giving birth to the internets, Obama takes credit for a recovering economy, both of which are false.

Of course it's intentional. How could it not be? Everything he does is contrary to a capitalist system. No one is that blind or stupid.

Dead Eye · Jul 8, 2011

Second Amendment said:
Of course it's intentional. How could it not be? Everything he does is contrary to a capitalist system. No one is that blind or stupid.

You know that, and I know that, but some people are still in denial. I didn't want to create a threadjack. There already is an Obama Beeyatch Thread, that is filled to the brim with his antics. I don't know if today's unemployment increase got added, but again, more fodder.

Back to the original post. Many of these types of emotional emails are designed to get you to pass them on. If you noticed, most, if not all the people that forwarded this "important message", never wiped out the email addresses of the previous senders. These "dust bunny" emails are designed to collect known good email addresses to be used for marketing, spam, tracking, etc... The sender cares not of the subject, just getting your email address.

Typically, I delete them. If I am interested, I check them through Snopes, and other such sites. Before forwarding, I wipe all the previous email addresses from the header, and forward them "BCC" or blindcopy, so they do not show up to any of the recipients.

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