Gov spending $1billion to dispose of unneeded/extra ammunition?

[Hound]

I volunteer to help them dispose of as much as I can.......... For free even.

[tim-adams]

I volunteer to help them dispose of as much as I can.......... For free even.

Amen!!!! sign me up.. If they drop a pallet of steel core I am sure someone around here will let us have some fun..

[Aloha_Shooter]

Mmmm .... if it's banned by international treaty then you're probably talking about things like chemical weapons. It costs a lot to build furnaces capable of destroying mustard and VX. We had tons of that stuff in storage; we've been trying to get rid of it for decades and it has cost a lot to burn what we could. Ammo for atomic artillery is also banned by treaty and pretty darn expensive to get rid of. Other things like artillery/tank rounds and mortars for WW2 and Korean War-era munitions just aren't going to be sold to the public.

[Rabid]

I posted a link about this a while ago, i cant remember the exact details but it is not just small arms munitions. It is some BS excuse about it taking more money to catalog it then destroy it. No it is not about non-green/lead core ammo we have been using steel since WW2 and our troops, believe it or not, still use ammo that old.
Any way thank Clinton for not allowing the small arms ammo to be sold to the public.

[hurley842002]

Mmmm .... if it's banned by international treaty then you're probably talking about things like chemical weapons. It costs a lot to build furnaces capable of destroying mustard and VX. We had tons of that stuff in storage; we've been trying to get rid of it for decades and it has cost a lot to burn what we could. Ammo for atomic artillery is also banned by treaty and pretty darn expensive to get rid of. Other things like artillery/tank rounds and mortars for WW2 and Korean War-era munitions just aren't going to be sold to the public.

Probably a more viable theory, think Pueblo chemical Depot.

[BlasterBob]

Surely a lot of local police departments would be glad to get some of the small arms ammo if compatible with their firearms.