Quote Originally Posted by Ridge View Post
According to this article, it costs the Army $200k a year for the storage. It also says they'll release 10,000 a year, so 9 years of storage at $200k comes to $1.8mil. Assuming every single one of those were Rack Grade at $850 (unlikely), they are looking at $8.5 million per year, more than 5 and a half times the storage cost.



With an estimated profit of $7 million per year, those are some highly paid folks for disassembling such a basic firearm.
And what about the previous 3 to 5 decades of storage and storage beyond the 9 years during which the guns will be sold? In the grand scheme, the money isn't a large amount. It's not gonna pay off the national debt and it's not gonna be an expense that's probably on anyone's radar.