Thank your government. They (DOD) have done is to reclassify ammo as an 'implement of war'. You see the gun control act of 1968 classified what DOD could and couldn't sell to the public and spent brass was classified 'B', meaning FFL's dealers could buy and reload it, anyone that wasn't an FFL has to crush it ... they have now classified spent brass as 'D', which means it HAS to be crushed for scrap.
So now you look at when Reid and Pelosi said they didn't want a new assault weapons ban ... these sharks are smooth. You see they know a good 80% of ammo used in semi-auto rifles uses spent military brass. No one is going to buy new Remington or Winchester ammo at 75 cents to a dollar and run it out through 30 round mags in a few minutes.
I hope you guys are stocked up. It is going to take a while for producers to adapt. If you think ammo is hard to find now, you haven't seen anything yet.
Yep. They are going to chip away at the edges until the whole thing falls through. They are dirty, filthy, two bit slobs. Same goes for anyone who supports their BS. They are the worse enemies we as gun owners face, hands down. They will sink our country.
This could be a purely economic decision. Suppose Remington and Winchester are willing to pay more for a kilogram of scrap that they can manufacture into new brass than other manufacturers of ammunition who reload spent brass are willing to pay for a kilogram of spent brass. In that case the government has an obligation to the taxpayers to do whatever will fetch the highest price for the brass.
Spent military brass accounts for some of the reload market, but not all of it, or even all calibers. It's mostly .223 and .308 that are affected, and both have civillian counterparts and sources.
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This could be a purely economic decision. Suppose Remington and Winchester are willing to pay more for a kilogram of scrap that they can manufacture into new brass than other manufacturers of ammunition who reload spent brass are willing to pay for a kilogram of spent brass. In that case the government has an obligation to the taxpayers to do whatever will fetch the highest price for the brass.
This could be a purely economic decision. Suppose Remington and Winchester are willing to pay more for a kilogram of scrap that they can manufacture into new brass than other manufacturers of ammunition who reload spent brass are willing to pay for a kilogram of spent brass. In that case the government has an obligation to the taxpayers to do whatever will fetch the highest price for the brass.
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Have either of you ever seen the goobermint do anything that made sense or benefitted the taxpayer. C'mon fellas, act like you have a clue here...
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This could be a purely economic decision. Suppose Remington and Winchester are willing to pay more for a kilogram of scrap that they can manufacture into new brass than other manufacturers of ammunition who reload spent brass are willing to pay for a kilogram of spent brass. In that case the government has an obligation to the taxpayers to do whatever will fetch the highest price for the brass.
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Have either of you ever seen the goobermint do anything that made sense or benefitted the taxpayer. C'mon fellas, act like you have a clue here...
I am a retired Foreign Service Officer who spent 23 years representing the United States in Iraq, ***an and Korea as well as working at the State Department in Washington and I can assure you that my fellow officers and I spent every day doing things that made sense and benefited the taxpayers, often in difficult and even dangerous circumstances.
This could be a purely economic decision.Â* Suppose Remington and Winchester are willing to pay more for a kilogram of scrap that they can manufacture into new brass than other manufacturers of ammunition who reload spent brass are willing to pay for a kilogram of spent brass.Â* In that case the government has an obligation to the taxpayers to do whatever will fetch the highest price for the brass.Â*
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Have either of you ever seen the goobermint do anything that made sense or benefitted the taxpayer. C'mon fellas, act like you have a clue here...
An economic decision? You mean spending resources destroying something generated by taxpayer money, which they used to sell and generate income to offset the expense? Is that the kind of economic decision you meant?
Update....I talked to a guy who knows a guy and as of this morning he says they are reclassifying ammo 50 cal and under as Demil Q (it was Demil B) ... that means NO mutilation is required(doesn't mean they won't do it anyway). I still don't have hard confirmation, so it's not definite yet.
Ammo Prices Going Up
