I just heard this today. A man in Terrebonne Parish had a small business where he would collect the spent bullet casings from Sheriff's/Police Shooting Ranges, reload, and then sell them back to the Range's at a fraction of the cost. This is now banned, and he had to close his business and lay off 60 employees. Way to go Obama. Ludicrous times ahead to say the least. "Effective immediately DOD Surplus, LLC, will be implementing new requirements for mutilation of fired shell casings. The new DRMS requirement calls for DOD Surplus personnel to witness the mutilation of the property and sign the Certificate of Destruction. Mutilation of the property can be done at the DRMO, if permitted by the Government, or it may be mutilated at a site chosen by the buyer. Mutilation means that the property will be destroyed to the extent prevents its reuse or reconstruction. DOD Surplus personnel will determine when property has been sufficiently mutilated to meet the requirements of the Government. " Once-fired brass military casings we have already paid for will be destroyed and not made available for public sale for reloading purposes. Selling these casings for scrap reduces the value by 80% and makes ammunition loading components less available. Prices will increase dramatically for several common calibers of ammunition. Suppliers have already suspended sale of once-fired military brass and ammunition made using once-fired brass. It is both par for Obama's economic genious and his policies on guns and ammunition. You probably won't hear this on the news folks.
What does Obama have to do it? The DRMS has long had a policy of demilitarization of surplus military equipment and munitions. There are a number of good reasons for this that you can read on their web site. Among the requirements for obtaining spent brass rounds from the military is that they not be reloaded.
It really doesnt matter to Frogleg, Ive seen his post, if he got a boil on his ass today, Its Obamas fault
Agreed on the Obama comment, unless he pushed the rule that now forbids this practice. More interested in the why on this one. I can understand not wanting military surplus equipment to get into the wrong hands, but the example Frog cites is just good ol' American ingenuity at work. And since he's recycling a product rather than destroying it for a fraction of the value, shouldn't this be considered a "green" business? Hmmmm? :yelwink2: Once again, bureaucratic red tape strangles common sense.
In that sense, yes, but scrapping them for recycle is green as well. And the government also has other concerns, one of which is liability. If former government rounds found their way into crime scenes or worse into some foreign conflict, it could be a diplomatic issue as well as a liability. Also, reloads have a higher failure rate than new ammo and the government risk management people may have decided that the potential for liability was greater than the money gained by reloading rather than scrapping
