New DMRS Requirements

Georgia Arms this weekend alerted gun owners and others in the shooting community to a new directive by the Department of Defense that bans the sale of military brass to ammunition re-manufacturers.

This is bad news for shooters like you and me because without that brass, a very large dent is put into civilian ammunition supplies.

The new Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) requirements call for the "mutilation of shell casings". As Rush Limbaugh would say, "for those in Rio Linda" mutilation, means destruction of the property "to the extent that prevents its reuse or reconstruction".

Strike one up for another regulation aimed at gun owners that did not require congressional approval.

But this doesn't just affect civilian gun owners. No, Georgia Arms was remanufacturing more than one million rounds of .223 ammunition monthly. That ammo was going not only to civilians but also to government agencies (i.e. law enforcement) all over the country. Not only will Georgia Arms start sending cancellation notices for .223 ammunition to law enforcement agencies across the United States, according to Jim Shepherd at the Shooting Wire, the company may have to layoff half of its sixty-person workforce.

Strike up one more victim of President Obama's economic recovery plan.

Contact your congressman and Senator's today and

As a VSSA member said when he forwarded this story to me "This is a huge waste of taxpayer's money. The value of these products is reduced by 80% by going from a recycled product to a scrap product."

Hat tip to VSSA member TM and the Shooting Wire.

State Department Floating Ammo Import Ban?

It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress. In this morning's edition of the Shooting Wire, Jim Shepherd writes that Canadian officials have it on "good authority" our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition.

Ammos listed for this rumored ban include the .50BMG, 7.62x39mm Soviet, 7.62x51mm NATO, .308 Winchester, 5.56 NATO and .223 Remington. Additionally, we're hearing that an expansion of this proposed ban might be broadened to include the 6.8mm SPC, 9mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP- among others.

In other words, State Department officials may be floating a trial balloon to see if there are howls of protest, or whimpers of compliance. Canadian elected officials who have directed this information to me say the move seems to be motivated by "emboldened" anti-gun officials who think they have a kindred spirit in President Obama.

Shepherd continues that there may also be a plan to ban exports on certain firearms to Canada from the US, resulting in the State Department hammering gun manufacturers, distributors and exporters in the United States while simultaneously making firearms -and ammunition - ownership and acquisition more difficult for Canadians.

Many in the pro-rights community have said since the election that Obama could circumvent Congress by using regulations in his various cabinet departments to attack gun owners. It appears that it may have already begun.