During the Clinton administration The arsenal at Anniston Ala. had the grinders working full blast for months until Congress shut the operation down. A gentleman that was a honcho there, often mentioned on the old
Culver
page by the name Orest I believe said he had no choice. They would bring him a truckload and into the grinders they went.
Carter was doing the same and the rumor was that under Carter hundreds of 55 gallon drums were filled with .45's most still new in box and then filled with concrete and sent to the bottom of the sea. If it's true I wonder how many Singers or USS were destroyed.
The rumor also is under Clinton after he was stopped from destroying them instead he sent thousands of
M14
's to the Poles. Those same M14's that we are now buying commercially so our boys in the sandboxes have something that shoots farter than the mouse gun.