Obama's First Try at Disarming America

Yes, just as Hitler disarmed Europe, Obama is beginning his disarmament of America, Surreptitiously of course, incrementally of course, and just the way I said it would happen.

By de Andréa

Some call me a prophet, some call me worse things. But no, I am not a prophet or any of those other things either. Sometimes I can just see down the road to The Bottom Line...

The Administration undercuts ammo supply, but the new Defense policy is reversed after intervention by 2 Montana senators. --- Thank you Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus for helping to preserve a free America.

Responding to two Democratic senators representing outraged private gun owners, the Department of Defense announced last night it has scrapped a new presidential policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge cases.

The policy had already taken a bite out of the nation's stressed ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find ammo for private gun owners.

Mark Cunningham, a legislative affairs representative with the Defense Logistics Agency, explained in an e-mail last night to the office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that the Department of Defense had placed small arms cartridge cases on its list of sensitive munitions items as part of an overall effort to ensure national security is not jeopardized in the sale of any Defense property. The small arms cases were identified as a sensitive item and were held pending review of policy, he said.

"Upon review, the Defense Logistics Agency has determined the cartridge cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for sale," Cunningham wrote.

The Defense Department liaison was responding to a letter yesterday to the Defense Logistic Agency's Vice Admiral Alan S. Thompson from Tester and fellow Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus. The senators argued "prohibiting the sale of fired military brass would reduce the supply of ammunition – preventing individual gun owners from fully exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. We urge you to address this situation promptly."

One of the companies that brought attention to the issue is Georgia Arms, which for the last 15 years has been purchasing fired brass casings from the Department of Defense and private government surplus liquidators. The military collects the discarded casings from fired rounds, and then sells them through liquidators to companies like Georgia Arms that remanufacture the casings into ammunition for the law enforcement and civilian gun owners.

But earlier this month, Georgia Arms received a canceled order, informed by its supplier that the government now requires fired brass casings be mutilated, in other words, destroyed to a scrap metal state.

The policy change, handed down from the Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency, cut a supply leg out from underneath ammunition manufacturers.


The policy compelled Georgia Arms to cancel all sales of .223 and .308 ammunition, rounds used, respectively, in semi-automatic and deer hunting rifles, until further notice. Sharch Manufacturing, Inc. had announced the same cancellation of its .223 and .308 brass reloading components.

They just reclassified brass to allow the destruction of it, based on what? We've been 'going green' for the last dozen years, and brass is one of the most recyclable materials out there. A cartridge case can be used over and over again. And now we're going to destroy it based on what? Because Obama wants to disarm the civilian public that’s what, it's our new government in action.

Firearm sales have spiked since the election of Obama a perceived anti-gun president and stockpiling bullets has produced a stressed ammunition market.

"People are stockpiling," said a spokeswoman for Georgia Arms, which has seen bullet sales jump 100 percent since the election. "A gun is just like a car. If you can't get gas, you can't use it."

The National Rifle Association confirmed that the DLA had been instructed to require the scrapping of the brass casings but declined to say where the order originated.

Other gun advocates, however, sounded off on the issue, eyeing the change in government policy with suspicion and filling the blogosphere with speculation that the effects of the policy change may be deliberate.

"It is an end-run around Congress. They don't need to try to ban guns – they don't need to fight a massive battle to attempt gun registration, or limit 'assault' weapon sales," writes firearm instructor and author Gordon Hutchinson on his The Shootist blog. "Nope --- all they have to do is limit the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, when the bullets dry up, guns will be useless."

THE BOTTOM LINE: This is exactly what I have been saying for the past three or four years, the hate America government doesn’t need to ban guns --- all it has to do is ban ammunition or any componet of it, example primers, or in this case ---Cases.

No pun intended…

de Andréa