101,948 pounds of brass for sale

So I had to pick up thousands and thousands of brass casings for what... so they can sell them to a private company for fractions of a cent each? My mind is boggling..

cost of labour for hundreds of people to pick up thousands of casings, cost of labour to drill holes in cases, cost of labour to put in a crate and ship across the country, cost of labour to write an auction ad. Minimum bid... $5000.
 
its not that you had to pick them up for no reason, after all we are picking them to keep the ranges clean and extend their overall lifespan; the slave labour aside, the military makes us pick up the cases to instill discipline, not to make a return investment off of our labour. hahaha
 
You all understand why it's such a large lot, right? The "Controlled Goods" thing is a hurdle; but it's not that big a deal.
The huge quantity is to make sure that it's priced out of reach of not only individual Canadians; but even out of the reach of fair-sized companies.

It makes me sick!

There is no earthly reason that the 16,000 kg (35,200 lbs!) of "small caliber" couldn't be sold separately in lots of even 10kg, or even 100kg. (We!) The government would get a better price for it and it would offer an opportunity for a small business to make some money and pay some taxes!
But our "friends" in government make that impossible.

Thanks, Stephen, Peter, Vic and Gary.
 
If troops didn't pick up the brass we would pay a lot more to contract someone to clean the range. The minimum bid is $5000 but from what I saw for a previous sale, this will sell for a much larger amount.
 
It could be sold in smaller lots, but 10 or 100 kg lots is to small for the work that has to be done to sell it off. It depends on the location, but I doubt you would see anything less than 2500 kg and even that would be rare.
 
it would be good for someone starting a odd cartridge business could be cast into round stock and then turned into the blank for the casing and its the right alloy for casings if i only had the money
 
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Maybe read the fine print. It has to be demilled within 6 months into a shape that does not allow it to be used as for it's origina purpose. They prefer "smelting."
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flyer27 said:
its not that you had to pick them up for no reason, after all we are picking them to keep the ranges clean and extend their overall lifespan; the slave labour aside, the military makes us pick up the cases to instill discipline, not to make a return investment off of our labour. hahaha
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But they COULD. That is what bothers me. Waste not, want not.
 
Why wouldn't they reload themselves and if that's not possible, just sell the scrap to a recycler directly? Wouldn't that be way more efficient and make sure that these "dangerous" (sarcasm here) lumps of metal do not land on the mantles of gun nutz?
 
According to this site: http://scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/canada/ They have 2300 lbs of yellow scrap brass that they will sell for $2.20USD per lb. so that gives you some idea what the retail value on this scrap would be worth. With such a large volume you wouldn't get nearly as much.

Anyone bidding on this would have to consider the cost of transportation, The cost of smelting, The cost of marketing etc. Still it is over 100,000 lbs so as long as they get a few qualified bidders I'm sure they will get much more than $5000 for it.
 
Splatter said:
You all understand why it's such a large lot, right? The "Controlled Goods" thing is a hurdle; but it's not that big a deal.
The huge quantity is to make sure that it's priced out of reach of not only individual Canadians; but even out of the reach of fair-sized companies.

It makes me sick!

There is no earthly reason that the 16,000 kg (35,200 lbs!) of "small caliber" couldn't be sold separately in lots of even 10kg, or even 100kg. (We!) The government would get a better price for it and it would offer an opportunity for a small business to make some money and pay some taxes!
But our "friends" in government make that impossible.

Thanks, Stephen, Peter, Vic and Gary.
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Nothing prevent you to buy the whole and re-sale by smaller lots. This burden should not be on the government.

[edit: actually, it is explicitly prevented, my bad.]
 
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