Flash – Military brass destruction policy reversed
March 18, 2009
*Scroll down for an update*
I just received a phone call from the office of U.S. Senator Tester of Montana to inform me that at 5:15 (EST) today a letter cosigned by Senator Tester (D-MT) and Senator Baucus (D-MT) was faxed to the Department of Defense asking DoD to reverse its new policy requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass. At 5:30, I am told, Tester’s office received a fax back from DoD saying that the brass destruction policy IS reversed.
Others report to me that they are already seeing evidence of this on the Websites of entities that liquidate surplus DoD commodities.
Our thanks go out to Senator Tester and Senator Baucus, and their staff, for getting on this problem promptly and making the reversal happen
Staff for Tester and Baucus promise they will get me the documentation for this reversal tomorrow morning. I’ll forward that when I get it.
*Update*
This policy has since been reversed. For more on the official notice of this event, click this link.
Best wishes,
Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com
i just want to confirm that DoD has reversed their decision to destroy fired military cartridge brass
That is correct and thank you for pointing that out. This is one place I forgot to add the update to notify readers. I appreciate you mentioning that. I’ll see if I can get the update to this article posted today.