GOVT Canada 5.56 brass SMELTED

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JUST came off Gov't of Canada Crown assets site. Listed is 26k kg 56000lbs of brass. Looks like 5.56 but could be others as well. Part of the deal is it MUST BE SMELTED.
It's listed at $50k. This stuff is like gold. The best I calculate is 4 million rounds. That equates to about 1c each scrap rate. I'm sure the commercial reloaders are sick considering the shortages. What it dies show is Trudeaus policy of restricting access to shooting sports components.
 
This is nothing new. The canuckistan government thinks nothing about wasting our tax dollars and even less about us gun owners.
They are simply too stupid to understand that this along with so many other crown assets are worth a ton of money, but rather than sell it to us serfs they would rather destroy it instead of lessening our tax burden.
Many years ago I was in long haul trucking. This is back in the day when CFB Sarcee was still a thing in Calgary. 1 load I got was 2 reconditioned deuces. The mechanics as the base had recently installed a 220 Cummins and Allison automatic tranny, new paint, new canvas, basically a complete rebuild. I took them up to CFB Cold Lake to be "hard targets" for a training exercise. Similar trucks at that time were selling for $10 to $15K USD at that time.

I guess when you don't have to work for your money it is easy to piss away.
 
When the government and the media are "hand and glove" the "unknown" waste and bad policy decisions are hidden from view.

These actions are nothing less than immoral if not criminal
 
If we had real journalists with integrity, some investigative reporter could write a very good article on this. Instead we have boot licking, latte sipping, socialist douchebags that pretend to be our unbiased media.
 
I have bid on government scrap many times. Anytime empty cases where involved their was always a clause in the contract that they must be scraped/smelted. Could be anything from aluminum rocket tubes, 12ga cases pistol or rifle brass. Basically illegal to resell as usable brass. I had two trucks drop of 64 pallets in one day. Mostly pistol and rifle brass. Eight pallets of 12 ga cases. Remington premier cases , what do you do with them? I didn’t want to get caught selling stuff because that is the end of any government surplus. Plus charges. Even though I got money for scrap it bother me taking it into be destroyed.
 
Reduce Reuse Recycle!

Clearly this Illiberal govt is not interested in saving the environment or fighting climate change. All they seem to be good at is wasting resources.
 
They will.
There’s Legislation now about surplussing firearms to the masses.
I think it came in when the C1’s and C2’s were taken outta service.
 
aakoksal said:
Wonder how many live/dud rounds are in that pile. That could be one reason why the government won't allow civilian sales, liability etc......
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There won’t be any dudes or lives. They’ve all been checked, believe me.

It’s just that the Canadian government can’t re-sell them to civilians.
 
Slamfire76239 said:
No, they CAN’T sell them.
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NO they WON'T. They are the ones who opted not to sell surplus to civilians. In the USA many things are sold surplus to civilians and the government makes a fair bit of return on the tax dollars spent.
In Canuckistan the government for some reason drafted and put in place a law that prohibits crown assets from being sold to civilians if it has any use. They COULD change this stupid law IF they wanted to or trusted us at all, but they don't, so won't.
 
Slamfire76239 said:
There won’t be any dudes or lives. They’ve all been checked, believe me.

It’s just that the Canadian government can’t re-sell them to civilians.
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Definatly a possibility of live rounds. When I bought such surplus lots they required my RPAL before they would release the items to me. Live rounds where found. 9 mil paint rounds. Live 9mil, 38 Special and 12 ga buck found.
 
too bad there is no company in canada that could buy it... smelt it and make new brass in needed calibers in canada ..... we need Ammo CANADA Manufacturers..
 
A lot of that will be IVI 556 with crimped primers fired in loose machine gun chambers. Barely worth the effort to reload. Of all the components for reloading common 9mm, 556 and 308, brass has never been scarce, nor cost me a dime.

At least it's getting smelted and reused, the govt is notorious for just dumping #### in the landfill.
 
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