Five years ago when I started this blog I found myself writing about light-hearted, feel-good outdoor topics most of the time. Of course, it was different times back then…the Clinton assault weapons ban had just sunseted and our lawmakers were solidly Republican with a pro-gun rights stance.
Oh, how things have changed. In Washington we now have the most anti-gun President and legislature that this country has ever experienced. Quite honestly, it scares me what this group is capable of accomplishing during the next four years to slowly take away my liberty.
If you haven’t heard the latest, it seems that as of last Friday the Obama Administration has sent down an edict stating that all spent military brass ammo casings must now be destroyed and sold as scrap metal. Are you prepared for what this action means? Ammo prices are likely going to go through the roof…just mark my word. It appears Obama’s anti-gun rights thugs feel if they can’t directly take our guns, well they will just make our ammo unavailable or outrageously expensive. Yup, this is the CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, all right.
I urge you to listen to the second hour of Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk Podcast for great information about what is currently going on. You can listen to that here:
http://guntalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=443576
After listening to that roughly 40 minute segment, I then urge everyone to contact their Congressmen and Senators to put them on notice. Here’s an outline of the letter my Washington representatives received today.
Dear Congressman Kline!
I am upset and extremely disappointed regarding the Department of Defense’s recent ruling on selling spent brass for scrap metal rather than to ammunition re-manufacturers. I understand that as of last Friday the current administration has pressured the DoD to destroy spent ammo casings and sell the material to be used only as scrap metal.
I view this as an assault on the gun-owning sportsman who has already seen his ammunition supply dry up. Result: ammo now costs three times as much as it did just a couple of years ago. If this measure is allowed to persist the price of ammo will continue to double, if not triple. Your quick action can prevent this from happening.
The DoD measure is unnecessary and makes no economic sense, whatsoever. The only purpose it truly serves is to effect law-abiding citizens and interfere with our gun owning rights.
Consider this. Selling the spent metal ammo casings for scrap is going to net the government 1/5 of what the value is if sold as casings able to be re-manufactured (as it has been sold prior to last Friday). During a time of government economic crisis that we are presently in…it is downright wasteful not to sell the ammo casings for their highest value.
These casings belong to me as a tax-paying citizen and not to receive the highest post-military value is absolutely unconscionable. Furthermore, it is my understanding that the recycled scrap metal will likely be sold to China. What a kick in the pants to me as an American.
I am asking you to act quickly to do whatever is necessary to reverse this latest government atrocity on the gun owning community. As a voter, I am watching closely to see if your actions (or lack of action) on this matter makes a difference. When someone attacks my most basic of constitutional rights I take the matter very seriously and will marshal my friends to do the same.
I look forward to your response as my Congressman on this important matter. In closing, I am proud to say I am a Lifetime NRA member.
The time to act is now. This isn’t just a potential threat…it is an ONGOING threat that you will be hearing more about in the coming days and weeks. Take it very seriously.
Oh, how I wish I could talk about more fluffy things in this blog like I did back in the beginning…but with current events as such affecting the gun-owning sportsman…it just doesn’t seem like a proper way to spend my time these days.
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Filed under: Politics, Shooting Sports
I for one plan to try and stock up and I am planning to load my own as soon as I do some more research on how to do it.
Thanks for the updates about our current admin’s goals; too many have no idea how calculated our politicians are, and how they operate based on whom they received the most donations from. Our country has been for sale for far too long, and it is wreaking havoc on what we are told to consider a free market system.
All mid to lower class suffer and lawmakers get bonuses, not such a free market from my perspective.
Every opportunity to spread the truth is appreciated.
Sparky
Reloading is definetly the way to go I have been reloading since I was about 11 with my dad. You have totla control over everything this way and can custimize your loads.
I’m not to up on this topic, but what dose make me so mad is that government can play war with other country’s spend billions of dollars and get away with what ever they want. Why, because unfortunately “WE THE PEOPLE” or Americans if you can call us that anymore have been comfortable so far with letting the government running everything and not getting involved. It will start just like this, where they say its for some reason, and its really because politicians have there own agendas and don’t really care about America as a whole. I hate profiteers, and that is what America has been for a long time. Money controls what we believe in anymore. That needs to change And I am not going to just stand by well my rights to defend myself is being systematically destroyed. Tell everyone what Obama is trying to accomplish and most hunting states would have a big fight on there hands if everyone got involved. God Help Us All.
I do agree with the central idea of the article. However I do believe that the process of ammunition destruction will take time. NRA is strong and will oppose what Obama is trying to accomplish as well as other similar organizantions.
Miodrag Delmic
http://www.ProAmmo.com
Reloaders-Don’t think you’re immune from it, either.
Mark my words, they WILL find a way to go after that, as well.
Just remember, there are guerilla methods of reloading your own ammunition, by making, and/or recycling components. And yes, black powder CAN be used in modern cartridges.
Mark my words- you’re a doosh. You got no busines calling the president a thug during wartime.
Relax, fellow Americans. There are literally 50 million gun owners and billions of rounds of ammo in their hands. No government is foolish enough to try to take on this group. Many of us are vets who, trust me, can usually hit what we’re aiming at. Remember, this is the same government that, through Rep and Dem admins, has tried to root out that evil marijuana with absolutely no success and there are millions more gun owners than pot smokers out there.
Washington fears, more than anything, a million man march with guns. And they know our all volunteer military will never turn on their own fathers, brothers and mothers. Keep the fear in the politicians and we will keep our guns. And ammo. They will agitate us as far as we will let them, but they are powerless to take our guns. Let your reps know this!