Seeing as how I saw several 45 lc cases and numerous other hard to get cases, I absolutely cringe since I can't even get any of them right now to reload😢
@@soulseeker42388 Reloaders are kinda the ultimate recyclers. I have cases thatI have reloaded 8and 10 times. My father was even more of a recycler than me, he would shoot solid lead bullets out of his 45LC, dig the bullets out of the back stop, cast them again, reloaded with black powder we made and shoot again. I have some of his reloads that I know were shot at least 15 times and as long as you keep the loads light, you can get away with it. For hunting, I use only cases with just 2 or 3 firings and make them full power and retire them.
My .45-70s reload now nicely, 54gr of H335 and 405gr lead cast bullets. Reloaded a few of them several times and not seen anything wrong with the casings yet.
The US should not export brass to other countries period. Not any other precious or semi-precious metals. What a shameful contribution to the government control overlords wanting to restrict and manipulate free citizens. Mbmmllc should work to save this valuable resource and protect Americans.
This was a problem a few years ago that Congress was made aware of. Selling once fired military brass oversees was banned. This brass was supposed to go back on civilian reloading market.
A few years ago Korea was buying these brass casings, some of the exporters were trying to save money by not performing the crushing process. Which would of saved time when reloading them into new ammo.
I buy them from gov auctions and reload them at about 1200 rounds an hour. Or I clean them in cement mixers and sell them by the 1000s. No idea why he is destroying them. Worth a lot mor intact
The real shame here is that they are sending metals that we can use or recycle ourselves overseas! We ought to be using anything of value like this for domestic uses before being sent anywhere. Its taxpayer bought and we ought to have say on its uses!
Yea... Let's ask each and every US citizen what they want to do with it. How about you also ask each and every US citizen if they think we should be spending billions on the military. By your logic if we get a majority of people to say "No more military spending" what are you gonna do? Are you gonna listen to them or just say, "We need it". Yeaaaaaa.. Your logic is "amazing".
All brass the military fires in training gets hand sorted at the ammo supply point then shipped back to whoever reloads them. M855 ball ammo is definitely reloaded, atleast the rounds we used for training. Been on a number of working parties to do it.
It’s not military brass that must be destroyed. It isn’t even all brass cases that must be destroyed. It isn’t even that all brass cases can’t be exported. It all falls under ITAR. Destroyed brass is scrap. Reloadable brass is considered arms/ammunition and is heavily regulated for export. It doesn’t matter if it’s military or civilian. You could theoretically export the spent cases, but you would have to have the proper licensing and follow all the regulations.
@@MitchellCH Patrick is correct. Most people in the US have no idea what the parts of a gun are, all they know is that it shoots and kills people. Sadly most of them have no idea that they are used for anything other than that
Once-fired military brass used to be widely available on the civilian market for reloading and remanufacturing. Some time under Obama administration there was a rule change and availability ended overnight. Sad.
To mbmmllc you guys make great equipment . But the trouble I have is that the equipment is being used to turn 5.00 a lb shell casings in 1.00 a lb brass scrap. As you have shown one person can run the line but if those same rounds are reloaded that would make about 10 jobs. That is our government at work for you
@@rockerpat1085 You're saying an agencies responsible for keeping our environment clean for us and our future generations and people safe in the present and future are problems....... you're....just.....plain......100%...wrong...... If businessmen and women weren't polluting and putting employees in unsafe conditions then neither agency would be necessary. However, greed for that all mighty dollar makes them not care for the environment nor employees. Get rekt by knowledge.
I export to China scrap materials and I can tell you that selling dirty scrap to China ended years ago. They buy clean scrap only. There operations in recycling that are safe and clean but in general whole cities were destroyed accommodating such businesses ... check China as example. Even they learned this in the difficult way.
not true with regards to either one of yalls comments... this is all small arms ammunition once fired shell cases saw nothing in there greater than 50 Cal All of which can be legally sold via Auction's by the federal government to include the department of his pants and literally tens of millions of these cases are sold in Such a manner every year I personally have purchased roughly 10,000,000 of them and re- sold them Also the base commander's desires with whether or not these things get shredded or otherwise destroyed is meaningless… Once this ammunition gets expended via training or whatever and turned in to the ammunition supply point on base, it becomes an item under the control and authority of the defense logistics agency not the base commander
@@pagansmc13 And your point is? I've bought a bunch of once fired military cases in 308/7.62 and found it to be very good brass compared to some commercial brass.
I could see the magbelt feeding a conveyor to another hammermill with an even smaller screen to reprocess the steel bearing material to liberate more brass
My vet brain says someone is getting paid handsomely to make sure someone else gets paid a shitload. This is a bigger waste than 97% of civilian contractors.
@@lordeverybody872 Possibly a pre-primed case that was never loaded. I've also seen live rounds pop in a melt pot. Range lead in large quantities can let them slip through. When I process range lead I melt it with a perforated steel cover to reduce the splashing.
I don't want to get involved with the morons below that want to twist everything into something other than what was intended like OSHA, EPA, MAGA etc but I do want to ask how much you get paid to turn all those cases into pellets? The reason I ask is that there is a very large market for reloading all across the USA and each one of those cases were worth at least a nickel or more to Americans across the country. I have no clue how many cases were in that hopper but you crushed up a shitton of nickels. You've already been educated on primers are not "firing pins" so to further your education a bit, primers are little copper (for softness) cups that are often nickel plated (usually for the civilian market). I have no clue what nickel is worth but maybe smelting out the nickel could add a little profit to what seems to be a deplorable was of a valuable commodity. Just saying.
The feds have a website for the purpose of disposal of surplus, obsolete, and damaged military goods. Anyone or any company can bid on these items. Some things they don't care what happens, some have to be destroyed, some can only be sold to companies that will melt and resell to the foundries that make replacement goods, like armor and weapon parts. They sell thousands of tons of stuff.
Worth a LOT more as re-loadable brass especially now man! LC brass is better than a lot of once fired stuff and worth sorting, if you can figure out the screening between 556/45/9
Also understand that even though the military could reload them, it would be more of a potential for a ruptured casing in the future. All of us that reload know that a case can be fired and reloaded to a max of 7 to 8 times before the brass gets way to thin. The military would rather melt the ones down and remake new casings to withstand the high chamber pressures that are the standard for military munitions.
Ignoring the obvious question of how did the live rounds get lumped in with expended casings... Won't the lead and copper from the bullets in the unfired rounds contaminate your brass?
IIRC Lead has a very low melting point so it can be easily removed. As for the copper contaminating the brass ... Brass is a certain % of Copper and Zinc to begin with. So after melting together than can measure the Zinc content and add more if needed to bring it back to spec.
Not sure how it works at a military range, but the brass is simply swept up and dumped into barrels at most ranges. If a round does not fire and is ejected it usually disappears on the ground in the pile of brass. The brass is NOT gone through to check for non-fired rounds. It all goes in the barrel, then off to the recycling facility or reloading facility.
@@MrLarry0001 Yeah, since I was in the service the range police call standard was probably different. These days service members are likely firing a lot more rounds than I did, as a result they likely relaxed the thoroughness of the police call for brass. When I was in it was a few hundred rounds per soldier per quarter.
They all end up in the floor, and very often when firing a gun one of the round wont fire, so you just remove the round as fast as possible and continue firing. The person cleaning the shells from the floor will rarely stop to pick up the live rounds.
Milspec cartridge cases are a PIA to process for reloading. Better to buy surplus and reload those. As for bulk brass? Those are recovered from training ranges periodically. They've been out in the weather for a LONG time. They are unsafe to reload at best. If you're not a reloader you might not get why. Those of you that are will. I agree this stuff should be recycled here. I don't have any idea why they aren't other than somebody in the CoC is making bank out of it.
That's a lousy process method for removing the steel bits of the primer because I can still see intact brass heads with primers still in the brass that was in the brass drum.
It sucks when they destroy military brass but like he says in video brass can be from recyclers too and that brass isn't worth sorting. I take about two 5 gal buckets of brass to local scrappers a yr and you don't want to reload anything I'm scrapping. He should be wearing a mask as the dust coming out of hammer mill is nasty.
Know your work before going on TH-cam and talking out of.... Firstly: you work for a special interest group with an agenda. I, along with countless other AMERICANS, buy spent military brass casings for reloading regularly from a national sporting goods outlet. Secondly: the ferrous metal is from the primer the bit you identified as a firing pin would be the primer anvil or possibly part of the decapping die used to deprime a "boxer case". Let me finish watching this. I'll bet I know where this goes next (I'm guessing ← and not →)
The American Military just wants to properly dispose of the waste from their shooting range in a way that's safest to people. Reloading shells can cause firearms to explode when done improperly. It's a liability.
I wonder what would happen if there was live rounds in the hammer Mill. probably nothing someone on TH-cam has to try one day put 100 live rounds would be interesting to see but until then amazing video as always
It's just CYA for the government. Some guy will buy this stuff and blow up his Barrett 50cal because he loaded a squib round accidentally. Then there's an expensive investigation and a lawsuit. This is cheaper in the long run.
As if somebody could successfully sue the federal government over a problem caused by his reloading of once fired government brass… Clearly you have never seen any of the paperwork the original buyer of this Brass has to sign when he buys it from the government...
@@pagansmc13 I read the description after I posted and figured out what was really going on here. During range time live rounds get dropped and are picked up by soldiers who 'brass up'. It gets mixed in with the empty brass. These 'empty' brass rounds are being exported. There's a restriction where the US can not ship live ammunition overseas. So the government is paying these guys to destroy the rounds. The guy in the video mentions the detonations of live rounds.
Really interesting video. I gotta ask though why doesn't the US military reuse it's casings into new ammo for themselves? I've heard from guys that even doing that yourself with most kinds of pistol ammo isn't too economical but with most kinds of rifle ammo it is. I gotta believe the same logic would apply to most spent ammo the military uses
Because that's dangerous. The casings aren't supposed to be reused. I've seen guns explode from people reusing cases over and over, it's like people don't know metal fatigue is a thing. They need to be recast to fix any structural problems with the brass.
So instead what we’re doing is shredding the cases and selling the brass to China so they can make bullet casings to fit their rifles that come take over our country why the hell would we do that?
As a hand loader this is heart breaking
Seeing as how I saw several 45 lc cases and numerous other hard to get cases, I absolutely cringe since I can't even get any of them right now to reload😢
@@southronjr1570 hence why you need people to recycle. So they can produce more for you to buy the reload
@@soulseeker42388 Reloaders are kinda the ultimate recyclers. I have cases thatI have reloaded 8and 10 times. My father was even more of a recycler than me, he would shoot solid lead bullets out of his 45LC, dig the bullets out of the back stop, cast them again, reloaded with black powder we made and shoot again. I have some of his reloads that I know were shot at least 15 times and as long as you keep the loads light, you can get away with it. For hunting, I use only cases with just 2 or 3 firings and make them full power and retire them.
My .45-70s reload now nicely, 54gr of H335 and 405gr lead cast bullets. Reloaded a few of them several times and not seen anything wrong with the casings yet.
The US should not export brass to other countries period. Not any other precious or semi-precious metals. What a shameful contribution to the government control overlords wanting to restrict and manipulate free citizens. Mbmmllc should work to save this valuable resource and protect Americans.
This was a problem a few years ago that Congress was made aware of. Selling once fired military brass oversees was banned. This brass was supposed to go back on civilian reloading market.
it was never intended to go to the civilian market...the civilian market can make it's own casings...
Still a waste of resources to reprocess, military could reload for pratice
Civilian can just resize and reload still a savings
@@imperialpresence3331 it doesn't matter what the intent was. Its wasteful to not reuse them.
@@jeffkasal330 not to mention We the people paid for them.
As a reloader, this video made me sad... lol
Gosh I buy them from my local recycling place. Swage the primer pocket and reload them.
"Firing Pin" Holly shit dude...!!! The word is Primer.
Democrats for you
I still think it's wrong to destroy these.
Why?
@thecouchtripper Because we all care what you think. SMH
@@Gompiebert because people reload them, it is a waste of resources. Many will be remade into bullet casings lol.
You can get them for reloading. But there are just way too many.
@@Gompiebert They're recyclable. They can easily be cleaned and reloaded into new working cartridges for hunting and target shooting.
These are worth so much more to Reloaders and there ain't no firing pins in the back of a shell that's a primer
A few years ago Korea was buying these brass casings, some of the exporters were trying to save money by not performing the crushing process. Which would of saved time when reloading them into new ammo.
I buy them from gov auctions and reload them at about 1200 rounds an hour. Or I clean them in cement mixers and sell them by the 1000s. No idea why he is destroying them. Worth a lot mor intact
Where do you buy it?
How are you legally selling the reloaded ammo? That sounds like super illegal.
@@sussyamongus6754 how would it be illegal?
@@sussyamongus6754 On the marketplace its called "remanufactured ammo" and is more than legal, its a right.
He is selling the equipment.
P.s. Reloadable brass is more valuable than melt value
DoD requires certification of destruction as a condition of sale.
@@StripeyType That must be a new thing I have 3, 55 gallon drums of military brass all intact
The real shame here is that they are sending metals that we can use or recycle ourselves overseas! We ought to be using anything of value like this for domestic uses before being sent anywhere. Its taxpayer bought and we ought to have say on its uses!
Suspicious
Yea... Let's ask each and every US citizen what they want to do with it. How about you also ask each and every US citizen if they think we should be spending billions on the military. By your logic if we get a majority of people to say "No more military spending" what are you gonna do? Are you gonna listen to them or just say, "We need it".
Yeaaaaaa.. Your logic is "amazing".
@@Sometimes_Always you’re not contributing to a constructive discussion.
All that brass... so sad to see it go :(
All brass the military fires in training gets hand sorted at the ammo supply point then shipped back to whoever reloads them. M855 ball ammo is definitely reloaded, atleast the rounds we used for training. Been on a number of working parties to do it.
They were in ww1 and probably after that shipping the cartridges back to be refilled for field guns.
What's the "carbon " footprint" on this ? Just give them to reloaders. Come on Joe !
It’s not military brass that must be destroyed. It isn’t even all brass cases that must be destroyed. It isn’t even that all brass cases can’t be exported. It all falls under ITAR. Destroyed brass is scrap. Reloadable brass is considered arms/ammunition and is heavily regulated for export. It doesn’t matter if it’s military or civilian. You could theoretically export the spent cases, but you would have to have the proper licensing and follow all the regulations.
I’m a gold guy and a gun guy so this was very interesting. Great video guys
ah, you enjoy the "simpleton" things in life..
@@johan6983 what about gold and guns is simpleton?
Gold? That's brass
5:20 No. A firing pin is a part of the gun not the cartridge. You are referencing the primer in the head of the cartridge not a firing pin.
Probably just a youtube mistake (it's common to get nervous and fumble your words when filming these things)
The guy’s a scrapper, not a gun guy. I doubt that he even ever went through hunters’ education.
patrick c really sad that soooo many people in the US have zero knowledge about one of the most common machines in the country.
@@MitchellCH Patrick is correct. Most people in the US have no idea what the parts of a gun are, all they know is that it shoots and kills people. Sadly most of them have no idea that they are used for anything other than that
The 223 rounds casings sell for 2 to 3 cents each hole
Now like 20 cents
Holy crap, they arent called "shells" they are fired cases, a shotgun fires a "shell" an anti aircraft gun fires a shell.....
You would probably make more money selling the clean non dented empty cases to reloaders, 120 bucks per 1000.....
you clearly have zero concept of how taxes work/what taxes apply to what activity/etc...
The equipment to destroy is cheaper than ones to reload. We don't want higher taxes right?
Once-fired military brass used to be widely available on the civilian market for reloading and remanufacturing. Some time under Obama administration there was a rule change and availability ended overnight. Sad.
To mbmmllc you guys make great equipment . But the trouble I have is that the equipment is being used to turn 5.00 a lb shell casings in 1.00 a lb brass scrap. As you have shown one person can run the line but if those same rounds are reloaded that would make about 10 jobs. That is our government at work for you
I’m sure the scrappers would be more than glad to sell you all the cases you want. It’s just that the supply far out weighs the demand.
@barry-
You have exactly no clue at all reference what you were talking about...
I swear we even ship our recycling overseas. Can’t we do anything here anymore
EPA AND OSHA!!! Part of the UNELECTED bureaucrats that ruined our country!!!
We can borrow and spend money... so I think we're good.
@@rockerpat1085 You're saying an agencies responsible for keeping our environment clean for us and our future generations and people safe in the present and future are problems....... you're....just.....plain......100%...wrong...... If businessmen and women weren't polluting and putting employees in unsafe conditions then neither agency would be necessary. However, greed for that all mighty dollar makes them not care for the environment nor employees. Get rekt by knowledge.
I export to China scrap materials and I can tell you that selling dirty scrap to China ended years ago. They buy clean scrap only. There operations in recycling that are safe and clean but in general whole cities were destroyed accommodating such businesses ... check China as example. Even they learned this in the difficult way.
We’ve done it for a long time. One reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was because we stopped selling them scrap.
What Evil 😈 SOB came up with this device? Watching was like having my teeth pulled 😬 😫
I hope they sold some brass to reloaders because military brass is some of the best brass for reloading.
Military requires destruction
@@markd7384 Depends on the base commander, some do and some don't.
not true with regards to either one of yalls comments...
this is all small arms ammunition once fired shell cases saw nothing in there greater than 50 Cal
All of which can be legally sold via Auction's by the federal government to include the department of his pants and literally tens of millions of these cases are sold in Such a manner every year
I personally have purchased roughly 10,000,000 of them and re- sold them
Also the base commander's desires with whether or not these things get shredded or otherwise destroyed is meaningless… Once this ammunition gets expended via training or whatever and turned in to the ammunition supply point on base, it becomes an item under the control and authority of the defense logistics agency not the base commander
@@pagansmc13 And your point is? I've bought a bunch of once fired military cases in 308/7.62 and found it to be very good brass compared to some commercial brass.
I'm a bit worried that they dude responsible for destroying these doesn't know the basic terminology of cartridges.
I could see the magbelt feeding a conveyor to another hammermill with an even smaller screen to reprocess the steel bearing material to liberate more brass
Those brass cases are worth more the way they are than the metal the have. 100 5.56 brass is about $11.00
My vet brain says someone is getting paid handsomely to make sure someone else gets paid a shitload. This is a bigger waste than 97% of civilian contractors.
Looks more like old range brass to me. Think i even seen some 22lr in there.
Learn something new every day.
Us navy Foundry man.
Overseas!? Hell no that needs to be recycled in America!
Did anyone else notice the 9mm (or maybe it was a 40S&W) at 3:34 with a live primer still in it? Amazing it could make it through like that.
How can it have a live primer when it has been spent?
@@lordeverybody872 Possibly a pre-primed case that was never loaded. I've also seen live rounds pop in a melt pot. Range lead in large quantities can let them slip through. When I process range lead I melt it with a perforated steel cover to reduce the splashing.
My heart is broken.
Why are they exporting brass when we have a shortage of it in the united states?
Would you make as much profit if those casings were all US Quarter Dollar coins? That's about how much you could sell them for.
I figure about .05 per 9mm empty. Hornady sells the stuff at Cabelas new for alot more.
@@mcgavin098 fired brass sells for a lot more today than scrap. Very little is on the market.
I don't want to get involved with the morons below that want to twist everything into something other than what was intended like OSHA, EPA, MAGA etc but I do want to ask how much you get paid to turn all those cases into pellets? The reason I ask is that there is a very large market for reloading all across the USA and each one of those cases were worth at least a nickel or more to Americans across the country. I have no clue how many cases were in that hopper but you crushed up a shitton of nickels. You've already been educated on primers are not "firing pins" so to further your education a bit, primers are little copper (for softness) cups that are often nickel plated (usually for the civilian market). I have no clue what nickel is worth but maybe smelting out the nickel could add a little profit to what seems to be a deplorable was of a valuable commodity. Just saying.
The feds have a website for the purpose of disposal of surplus, obsolete, and damaged military goods. Anyone or any company can bid on these items. Some things they don't care what happens, some have to be destroyed, some can only be sold to companies that will melt and resell to the foundries that make replacement goods, like armor and weapon parts.
They sell thousands of tons of stuff.
Someone gets to smell the Cherries!
Brass heavy in tin burns out as the casings are melted and smells like cherries!
Seems like an awfully big machine for what it does. Could be a lot more compact. Stupid to crush what could be resold and reused in the first place.
Why not sell the good brass to reloaders? It would be soooo efficient and save the environment to boot.
Why in the heck do we ship this material overseas?
You can braze with cartridge brass.
It seems more like it just kinda squishes them into ball like pellets
Worth a LOT more as re-loadable brass especially now man! LC brass is better than a lot of once fired stuff and worth sorting, if you can figure out the screening between 556/45/9
Crushing good quality 50 bmg brass is a crime 😭
I saw a few 9mm cases make it through unscathed...
Also understand that even though the military could reload them, it would be more of a potential for a ruptured casing in the future. All of us that reload know that a case can be fired and reloaded to a max of 7 to 8 times before the brass gets way to thin. The military would rather melt the ones down and remake new casings to withstand the high chamber pressures that are the standard for military munitions.
Ignoring the obvious question of how did the live rounds get lumped in with expended casings... Won't the lead and copper from the bullets in the unfired rounds contaminate your brass?
IIRC Lead has a very low melting point so it can be easily removed. As for the copper contaminating the brass ... Brass is a certain % of Copper and Zinc to begin with. So after melting together than can measure the Zinc content and add more if needed to bring it back to spec.
Not sure how it works at a military range, but the brass is simply swept up and dumped into barrels at most ranges. If a round does not fire and is ejected it usually disappears on the ground in the pile of brass. The brass is NOT gone through to check for non-fired rounds. It all goes in the barrel, then off to the recycling facility or reloading facility.
@@MrLarry0001 Yeah, since I was in the service the range police call standard was probably different. These days service members are likely firing a lot more rounds than I did, as a result they likely relaxed the thoroughness of the police call for brass. When I was in it was a few hundred rounds per soldier per quarter.
They all end up in the floor, and very often when firing a gun one of the round wont fire, so you just remove the round as fast as possible and continue firing. The person cleaning the shells from the floor will rarely stop to pick up the live rounds.
Milspec cartridge cases are a PIA to process for reloading. Better to buy surplus and reload those. As for bulk brass? Those are recovered from training ranges periodically. They've been out in the weather for a LONG time. They are unsafe to reload at best. If you're not a reloader you might not get why. Those of you that are will. I agree this stuff should be recycled here. I don't have any idea why they aren't other than somebody in the CoC is making bank out of it.
Unions!
I wish I had this machine for if I had millions of brass bullet casings for when I melt the brass
Man zhould just menlt it into brass and coper bars then sell it or keep it on a shelf till prices go up would be the smart thing to do
I hope the live round didn’t hurt the hammer mill.
(Kidding, used the build them)
That's a lousy process method for removing the steel bits of the primer because I can still see intact brass heads with primers still in the brass that was in the brass drum.
Amazing machine!!!
Hi any one has any expirience how to recycle .50 bullets,seperate the brass from the lead, and the steel core.
"Firing Pins"!?!?!?!?
This guy has exactly zero firearms knowledge.
The rounds going off are primers!
I heard one live round at 1:30!!
What happens if there is a live bullet?
FYI there is lead in primer components.
I have a bunch of unspent casings
I had no idea this was even a thing.
Hmm wonder what a ball mill would have done to them?
Nice video. I really love that shade of blue on that conveyor belt.
Just got sick watching
"No brass no ammo"
Just feed that first belt into the back of my truck.
It sucks when they destroy military brass but like he says in video brass can be from recyclers too and that brass isn't worth sorting. I take about two 5 gal buckets of brass to local scrappers a yr and you don't want to reload anything I'm scrapping.
He should be wearing a mask as the dust coming out of hammer mill is nasty.
what's wrong with your brass? Reloaded multiple times? Rough?
thats alot of shells
me: dont point that g on me bro :D
Its copper in brass and that aint
Cheap
I hope your client buys a dozen!!!
Sell us the brass without crushing it
Primers , not firing pins.
Know your work before going on TH-cam and talking out of....
Firstly: you work for a special interest group with an agenda. I, along with countless other AMERICANS, buy spent military brass casings for reloading regularly from a national sporting goods outlet.
Secondly: the ferrous metal is from the primer the bit you identified as a firing pin would be the primer anvil or possibly part of the decapping die used to deprime a "boxer case".
Let me finish watching this. I'll bet I know where this goes next
(I'm guessing ← and not →)
So sad in so many ways!
With more as shells than scrap!! 🙁
DEMIL Code 1.
Turn it on while talking?
JUST GETTING THE US MORE READY FOR I N V A S I O N!! THAT'S WHY!
Creepy planet earth
they are not firing pins they are primers
Primer anvils
Yeah, washing and tumbling for the civilians makes to much sense. 🙄
Wouldn't want to stand over the hammer mill when the live rounds go off! That would be a little unnerving!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
smelt all
Mmmm know in 2021 you can not find ammo and you are doing dis way
Noooooooooooo!!!!!!
This seems like a huge waste of time and money!
i love factory things like these. very satisfying
This machine needs to destroy!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo
😂 😂 😂 Why they want it destroyed 🤔
To make more cash!
Recycling and refilling is cheaper!
This would be my first choice as the answer why!
The American Military just wants to properly dispose of the waste from their shooting range in a way that's safest to people. Reloading shells can cause firearms to explode when done improperly. It's a liability.
How many failures due to the reloading issues occurred in the US in say 2019? Or 2018? Or 2020?
I wonder what would happen if there was live rounds in the hammer Mill. probably nothing someone on TH-cam has to try one day put 100 live rounds would be interesting to see but until then amazing video as always
there are live rounds in this vid )
@@melin1969 really i must have missed that thanks
What a waste! You realize we would buy those shells from you before you ruined them lol
It's just CYA for the government. Some guy will buy this stuff and blow up his Barrett 50cal because he loaded a squib round accidentally. Then there's an expensive investigation and a lawsuit. This is cheaper in the long run.
As if somebody could successfully sue the federal government over a problem caused by his reloading of once fired government brass…
Clearly you have never seen any of the paperwork the original buyer of this Brass has to sign when he buys it from the government...
@@pagansmc13 I read the description after I posted and figured out what was really going on here. During range time live rounds get dropped and are picked up by soldiers who 'brass up'. It gets mixed in with the empty brass. These 'empty' brass rounds are being exported. There's a restriction where the US can not ship live ammunition overseas. So the government is paying these guys to destroy the rounds. The guy in the video mentions the detonations of live rounds.
@@pagansmc13 It's some kind of ITAR restriction just like you can't ship night vision equipment out of the US.
This pains me to watch
Really interesting video. I gotta ask though why doesn't the US military reuse it's casings into new ammo for themselves? I've heard from guys that even doing that yourself with most kinds of pistol ammo isn't too economical but with most kinds of rifle ammo it is. I gotta believe the same logic would apply to most spent ammo the military uses
Because that's dangerous. The casings aren't supposed to be reused. I've seen guns explode from people reusing cases over and over, it's like people don't know metal fatigue is a thing. They need to be recast to fix any structural problems with the brass.
So instead what we’re doing is shredding the cases and selling the brass to China so they can make bullet casings to fit their rifles that come take over our country why the hell would we do that?
What a waste of effort
That's bs
Have you no shame
🍻👍
What an amazingly annoying noise you have posted.
They could just give away that brass to citizens... What a shame 😠😠😠😠