Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- Yesterday, I had a post that looked at the fact that Mayor Bloomberg has recently spent a lot of time going after online ammunition sales.
However, I also pointed out that his own NYPD has a record of selling used brass (spent bullet casings) to ammunition manufacturers who then reload the ammunition and sell it online.
Case in point, Georgia Arms, a Georgia-based company that buys thousands of tons of used brass from the NYPD, reloads it, and sells it online at a fair price.
During a question and answer session with Bloomberg on Monday, a reporter seized on these things and asked the Mayor how he could both criticize online ammunition sales yet sell manufacturers the components to make ammunition for online sales. Bloomberg did not like the question.
And he simply responded that the sales would go on as before, saying the casings which NYPD sells “are not bullets, they are scrap metal.”
In other words, Bloomberg is going to continue to turn a profit off the spent casings for New York City, he’s just not going to call bullet casings by name while doing it.
About AWR Hawkins
AWR Hawkins writes for all the BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, for Townhall.com and now AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
His southern drawl is frequently heard discussing his take on current events on radio shows like America’s Morning News, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Ken Pittman Show, and the NRA’s Cam & Company, among others. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and he holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University.
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