[quote author=Jonas link=topic=1059.msg10722#msg10722 date=1372476437]
Can you not sell the unusable brass to a smelter?
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The (old) primers make it hazardous waste. MODERN primers are no longer mercuric, but because there is no practical way to tell old from new in large(r) quantities the metal buyers go for the lowest common denominator. Thus it would require decapping all the old brass.




. . . that is not to say there is not someone somewhere that would buy it, but as Talon's owners are LEOs . . . . . . :