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Military Destroying Once Used Brass… AGAIN! Adding to Ever Worsening Ammo Shortage
Military Destroying Once Used Brass… Again, Adding to Ever Worsening Ammo Shortage
Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea
USA --(Ammoland.com)- One source the civilian market particularly looks at is for cartridge casings, and in a time of high demand, having them available for reloading ammunition becomes a significant interest.
One of the prime suppliers for expended brass is the military, so their compliance with appropriations requirements and public law becomes a matter of heightened public interest.
Thinking that compliance issues over unauthorized destruction rather than resale of brass had been resolved back in 2009 and again in 2010, tips that the practice was ongoing and continuing resulted in a special Gun Rights Examiner investigative report in January about reports of destruction at Fort Drum in New York, but not in clarification from responsible authorities.
With that as backdrop, independent reports and tips continued to be provided to this column by interested readers, including a military combat veteran relating not just the alleged destruction of ammunition but also the financial advantages he said the Oregon National Guard benefited from by deforming and selling casings as scrap, and also a report alleging similar destruction at an Army base in Wisconsin, Fort McCoy.
Continue reading on Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/article/military-installations-sidestep-questions-on-brass-destruction
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea
2013-03-29 15:16:49
Source: http://www.ammoland.com/2013/03/military-destroying-once-used-brass-again/
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