16 billion dollars in ammo to be destroyed

[peacebutready]

Is there anything that can be done about this?


http://www.alloutdoor.com/2014/10/2...ent=2014-11-04&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter

Edit: One person mentioned it doesn't specify if it is small-arms ammo.

 

[Field Tester]

You said it, not small arms ammunition.
We've had this discussion before. Some websites like to stir up trouble where there is none.
If anything people should have been upset 60 years ago when they were making more than enough arms and ammo to blow the Moon out of the sky.

 

[230RN]

Are they gonna blow it up? Are they gonna blow it up? Huh? Huh? I wanna see the video.

I guess a lot of munitions are destroyed because they becomes obsolete, start to decay, or are otherwise unserviceable. If the propellant is easily recovered, this can be reprocessed into ball powder, but recovering it may be too expensive in terms of the value of the result.

The article seems to be a bit over the top in terms of hyperbolic assumptions, though.

 

[Sav .250]

Who says the Gov`t isn`t efficient !

 

[stchman]

Since this country has a $17T+ deficit, sell the small arms ammo (if any) to US civilians and the larger stuff to other countries. The taxpayers paid for it, so we should at least see a return on it.

 

[dogtown tom]

Unless Senator Coburn can be a little more specific as to what he means by "ammunition" all this hoopla and handwringing is meaningless.

From Senator Coburn's Wastebook : "....Certain kinds of ammunition became “obsolete, unusable or their use is banned by international treaty,” according to Pentagon officials...."

I highly doubt that the ammunition slated for destruction is small arms ammunition. More than likely it's land mines, backpack nukes and sharks with lasers that have outlived their usefulness.

 

[mnrivrat]

the taxpayers paid for it, so we should at least see a return on it.

lmao !

 

[moxie]

Hogwash!

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

P-P-P-P-Please........

Gonna be "out of date" and obsolete "system" components for the most part.

Takes labor - expensive labor - to dismantle and safely dispose of some of these items.

Even the simple components of the 16" naval guns from the old battle wagons took a boat load (NPI) of money to demo, where it applied.

 

[MtnCreek]

16 billion dollars in ammo

You've got to consider what they paid for it too. My modest stash may be worth a couple of million in US tax payer dollars... but nobody here would give me much for it.

 

[barnbwt]

Ya'know, if they'd just ditch that NFA thing, they'd have plenty of buyers for this stuff (and would have had buyers all along, so there'd have been no need for it to rot away in storage to the point of uselessness)

+1 on blaming our forbears in the Pentagram for generating this much excess requisition in the first place...

Forget the 16 billion; how much is it gonna cost to despose of? I have to imagine it costs more than one ancient artillery shell's worth to dismantle and demil the thing.

TCB

 

[Al Thompson]

Just because it's ammo, I don't think it's THR materiel.