So it may come as a surprise to some that in June, New York City sold
more than 28,000 pounds of the Police Department’s spent shell casings
not to a scrap metal company, as it has in the past, but to a Georgia
ammunition store. The store, Georgia Arms, routinely buys once-fired shell casings, reloads them with bullets and sells them to the public.
The store sells bags of 50 bullets, at about $15 each; per Georgia’s gun
laws, no questions are asked and no identification or registration is
required. It is a transaction that could not occur in New York City,
where it is illegal to possess ammunition without a license to own a
gun, and where obtaining a license to own a gun is harder than in most
other states.
The sale of shell casings to Georgia Arms is perfectly legal and not
uncommon; other police departments sell their used casings. And many of
its “factory loaded” bullets, as the second-generation rounds are known,
are sold in bulk to police agencies for use on their own firing ranges.
They are less expensive than new ammunition.
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