DOD Ends Sale of Expended Military Brass to Remanufacturers

[wetwrks]

Dear Loyal Customers,

Thanks to your voice, DOD has rescinded the order to mutilate all spent cases as of 4:30 pm on 3/17/09. We appreciate the time and effort that you expended, together we all made a difference. We will be posting the email we received from DOD as well as any additional information within the next 12-16 hours. Thanks so much and lets get to work!!! Georgia Arms

AND

Dear MSSA Friends,

I just received a phone call from the office of U.S. Senator Tester of Montana to inform me that at 5:15 (EST) today a letter cosigned by Senator Tester (D-MT) and Senator Baucus (D-MT) was faxed to the Department of Defense asking DoD to reverse its new policy requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass. At 5:30, I am told, Tester's office received a fax back from DoD saying that the brass destruction policy IS reversed.

Others report to me that they are already seeing evidence of this on the Websites of entities that liquidate surplus DoD commodities.

Our thanks go out to Senator Tester and Senator Baucus, and their staff, for getting on this problem promptly and making the reversal happen

Staff for Tester and Baucus promise they will get me the documentation for this reversal tomorrow morning. I'll forward that when I get it.

Best wishes,

Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association

http://www.mtssa.org

author, Gun Laws of Montana

http://www.mtpublish.co

[SCpoloRicker]

That is actually quite awesome. Representative government working across traditional political leanings.

Well done, Montana.

/just to troll:

Obama is still going to take yer guns, jorbs, and make us socialist so we can finally make up for abusing the world for so long. Finally, we have teh power. Quick! To the abortion/welfare/Brady (weapons ban not good ol' fashion TeeVee reference implied) Mobile!

[LegumeOfTerror]

Crisis Averted

[grEnAlEins]

Crisis Averted

Indeed

[PyRo]

Sounds like NY. Government owned weapons can only be disposed of by destruction. This is not limited to restricted items, it is all firearms. Trading in old guns takes a big dent out of the cost of replacing them. Not in NY though, we need to keep those guns out of the hands of criminals by not allowing a reputable dealer to resell them.
I'm glad the DOD came to its senses. Selling used brass not only yields the DOD millions of dollars a year but their are probably hundreds or thousands of jobs that depend on used brass from the DOD and other sources.

[maxama10]

Sounds like NY. Government owned weapons can only be disposed of by destruction. This is not limited to restricted items, it is all firearms. Trading in old guns takes a big dent out of the cost of replacing them. Not in NY though, we need to keep those guns out of the hands of criminals by not allowing a reputable dealer to resell them.
I'm glad the DOD came to its senses. Selling used brass not only yields the DOD millions of dollars a year but their are probably hundreds or thousands of jobs that depend on used brass from the DOD and other sources.

Exactly!