Ft. Drum Destroying Brass Instead Of Selling It For Reloading

[mrjarrell]

Well, we're back to this again. Apparently, the yahoos at Ft. Drum didn't get the message last time and are destroying once used brass, rather than selling it for reloaders. Wonder how many other bases might be doing the same?

Fort Drum brass destruction threatens reloading supply and more - National gun rights | Examiner.com

 

[Slapstick]

Not surprising since the Obama administration is attacking gun rights on all fronts, importation, manufacturing, ammo availability, accessories etc.

 

[03A3]

They likely did get the message which was "Destroy brass".
The same type of message some banks have received about doing business with the firearms industry.
I wonder why imported firearms, ammunition and magazines were drying up months ago?
Why did an Indiana Sheriff receive an email one week after the Presidential election telling him to talk to his force as to being prepared for weapons confiscation?

 

[rooster]

Its worth more as casings than raw metal and uncle sam needs money right?

 

[jayhawk]

I have a feeling this has to do with laziness. Less paperwork and headache to demil than to solicit bids and sell to the open market.

 

[jgreiner]

Well, we're back to this again. Apparently, the yahoos at Ft. Drum didn't get the message last time and are destroying once used brass, rather than selling it for reloaders. Wonder how many other bases might be doing the same?

Fort Drum brass destruction threatens reloading supply and more - National gun rights | Examiner.com

Was this done via direction from the oval office?

 

[SERparacord]

Military budget cutbacks, the brass sorters go first.

 

[shawnba67]

The plan has always been if you cant get the weapon get the feed. Their is no ammo amendment

 

[mrjarrell]

Was this done via direction from the oval office?

No-one knows, yet. I imagine Tester and a couple of others will want to know, too.

 

[AtTheMurph]

When you can print unlimited amounts of money you can buy unlimited amounts of ammo.

I suspect that all those billions of rounds of ammo the govt is buying is to dry up the supply for anyone else.

 

[Valvestate]

It's likely only a real problem if the brass is hoarded. If it's scrapped, it's likely to end up on the mfg assembly line, so more new ammo.

 

[in625shooter]

There is no evil plan on destroying the brass just bureaucratic stupidity. There was a directive a few years ago that they (whoever they are) were concerned the used componants would fall into the hands of terrorist orginazations (the Middle East ones for the tin foil folks) I have no idea where they came up with that idea but as everyone knows no matter where you work or who you work for there are some managers with either ZERO thought process or some that have a thought process from center field.

 

[kevinsr98]

They likely did get the message which was "Destroy brass".
The same type of message some banks have received about doing business with the firearms industry.
I wonder why imported firearms, ammunition and magazines were drying up months ago?
Why did an Indiana Sheriff receive an email one week after the Presidential election telling him to talk to his force as to being prepared for weapons confiscation?

Can you provide a source for this?

 

[Kagnew]

Does Fort Drum operate under a different set of rules than do other military installations? Are they not following DoD and DA directives?

 

[Degtyaryov]

Spending time and money to destroy something of value just so that gun owners can't have it. Liberalism at its finest, folks.

 

[Khazik]

They likely did get the message which was "Destroy brass".
The same type of message some banks have received about doing business with the firearms industry.
I wonder why imported firearms, ammunition and magazines were drying up months ago?
Why did an Indiana Sheriff receive an email one week after the Presidential election telling him to talk to his force as to being prepared for weapons confiscation?

Can you provide a source for this?

I was going to ask the same thing.