To keep the chaos down lets use this as the "official" Activism thread on this topic.
I'll remind everyone right off the bat that his is not a discussion forum.
If you just want to shout and complain this isn't the place for it.
This is where we make a conscious effort to get things done and you can't get much done with endless carping and complaining, so let's stay focused on working.
The word is out all over THR and the other firearms sites that Georgia Arms received a notice from one of their suppliers of government surplus fired small arms brass that all casings had to be mutilated before they could be removed from the site. This means that the brass is rendered unusable for remanufacture/reloading. We've verified that another company that purchases government surplus expended small arms brass received a similar notice stating the same requirements from a separate supplier.
We don't know why the US government directed their surplus sellers to do this and it may not matter. What we do know is that as a community we should work to get this decision reversed.
Here's a proposed plan of action.
Email, call, visit and snail mail your elected officials about this issue. Points to focus on are in the example letter below, but ranting and raving isn't advisable.
Go to congress.org and identify your elected officials in Congress and State Legislatures. Your State Legislators are important because they also have constituents that will be impacted by this (shooter that won't be able to purchase reloadable brass/remanufactured ammo, LE organizations who depend upon purchasing less expensive remanufactured ammo to be able to afford to train, and in some cases employers who use the brass who will have to lay off workers who were previously gainfully employed and paying taxes).
Congress.org allows users to:
* Identify and contact elected leaders in Congress, the White House, and state legislatures
* Post letters online in Letters to Leaders and read what other Americans are saying to elected officials
* Create and post Soapbox action alerts to enlist others on your issue.
* Have letters printed and hand-delivered to Congress (there is a fee for this service)
* Find and contact local and national media by ZIP code or by state with Media Guide
* Have your representative's votes sent to you weekly via e-mail
* Search alerts and take action in the Issues and Calls to Action area (contact Capitol Advantage to get your organization's alerts on Congress.org, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and other sites).
Feel free to send some version of the following message to ALL your state legislators and congresscritters by mail, email and phone calls. Visit them if possible.
Honorable XXXYYY,
As a constituent I was disgusted to recently read of another example of government waste of the taxpayer dollars and the destruction of American jobs.
The ammunition manufacturing industry has been purchasing expended small arms brass cartridge casings surplussed through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for the sale of surplus and scrap assets of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for years. This has allowed companies to keep citizens gainfully employed reusing the surplussed brass to produce ammunition for civilian and law enforcement users and has allowed the government to earn higher sale prices than other brass scrap not suitable for reuse.
A recent change requiring "mutilation" of the surplussed brass cartridge casings will effectively destroy that industry and reduce the value of the material being sold by the government. It will also deny your constituents who shoot and the local and state law enforcement organizations that depended upon this inexpensive source of ammunition to train their officers a steady source of ammunition. In these hard economic times it is inconceivable that a decision like this would be allowed to stand when American jobs will be lost and already strained budgets will be further pushed to the breaking point to purchase more expensive ammunition sources. The loss of additional revenue to the government that reusable brass brings over mutilated scrap may be considerable as well.
In addition, reuse of surplus brass is a more environmentally sound management approach. It saves scarce resources and conserves energy when compared to recycling of mutilated materials.
Please act now to reinstate the rules that have been in place for years to allow expended small arms brass to be surplussed and sold for reuse without mutilation. This is a far more economically and environmentally sound approach than allowing the new requirement for mutilation of such brass to stand.
Please see http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=2272021&convertTo=USD and http://silverbids.com/?tag=surplus-brass for more information if you are unaware of the changes.
Regards,
YYYYXXXX
I'll remind everyone right off the bat that his is not a discussion forum.
If you just want to shout and complain this isn't the place for it.
This is where we make a conscious effort to get things done and you can't get much done with endless carping and complaining, so let's stay focused on working.
The word is out all over THR and the other firearms sites that Georgia Arms received a notice from one of their suppliers of government surplus fired small arms brass that all casings had to be mutilated before they could be removed from the site. This means that the brass is rendered unusable for remanufacture/reloading. We've verified that another company that purchases government surplus expended small arms brass received a similar notice stating the same requirements from a separate supplier.
We don't know why the US government directed their surplus sellers to do this and it may not matter. What we do know is that as a community we should work to get this decision reversed.
Here's a proposed plan of action.
Email, call, visit and snail mail your elected officials about this issue. Points to focus on are in the example letter below, but ranting and raving isn't advisable.
Go to congress.org and identify your elected officials in Congress and State Legislatures. Your State Legislators are important because they also have constituents that will be impacted by this (shooter that won't be able to purchase reloadable brass/remanufactured ammo, LE organizations who depend upon purchasing less expensive remanufactured ammo to be able to afford to train, and in some cases employers who use the brass who will have to lay off workers who were previously gainfully employed and paying taxes).
Congress.org allows users to:
* Identify and contact elected leaders in Congress, the White House, and state legislatures
* Post letters online in Letters to Leaders and read what other Americans are saying to elected officials
* Create and post Soapbox action alerts to enlist others on your issue.
* Have letters printed and hand-delivered to Congress (there is a fee for this service)
* Find and contact local and national media by ZIP code or by state with Media Guide
* Have your representative's votes sent to you weekly via e-mail
* Search alerts and take action in the Issues and Calls to Action area (contact Capitol Advantage to get your organization's alerts on Congress.org, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and other sites).
Feel free to send some version of the following message to ALL your state legislators and congresscritters by mail, email and phone calls. Visit them if possible.
Honorable XXXYYY,
As a constituent I was disgusted to recently read of another example of government waste of the taxpayer dollars and the destruction of American jobs.
The ammunition manufacturing industry has been purchasing expended small arms brass cartridge casings surplussed through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for the sale of surplus and scrap assets of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for years. This has allowed companies to keep citizens gainfully employed reusing the surplussed brass to produce ammunition for civilian and law enforcement users and has allowed the government to earn higher sale prices than other brass scrap not suitable for reuse.
A recent change requiring "mutilation" of the surplussed brass cartridge casings will effectively destroy that industry and reduce the value of the material being sold by the government. It will also deny your constituents who shoot and the local and state law enforcement organizations that depended upon this inexpensive source of ammunition to train their officers a steady source of ammunition. In these hard economic times it is inconceivable that a decision like this would be allowed to stand when American jobs will be lost and already strained budgets will be further pushed to the breaking point to purchase more expensive ammunition sources. The loss of additional revenue to the government that reusable brass brings over mutilated scrap may be considerable as well.
In addition, reuse of surplus brass is a more environmentally sound management approach. It saves scarce resources and conserves energy when compared to recycling of mutilated materials.
Please act now to reinstate the rules that have been in place for years to allow expended small arms brass to be surplussed and sold for reuse without mutilation. This is a far more economically and environmentally sound approach than allowing the new requirement for mutilation of such brass to stand.
Please see http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=2272021&convertTo=USD and http://silverbids.com/?tag=surplus-brass for more information if you are unaware of the changes.
Regards,
YYYYXXXX
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