US military selling spent shredded ammo brass to China

I received a copy of this email today.

Subject: Fw: Brass

>>> 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 want to add a 500% tax on each shell.

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

>>> The Shootist Site

[link to www.theshootist.net]

>>> 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 you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice,
>>> We're fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action.