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Originally Posted by MVP
Brownells advertises that they supply magazines to the military. They are located in Iowa. Iowa has Harking - D, and Grassley - R for senators. In congress they have three Dems (Braley, Loebsack, Boswell) and two repubs (Latham and King). Loebsack is on the Armed Service Committee.
MVP
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Harkin, not Harking. He was the guy who claimed to have flown aircraft in Vietnam, and attacked others like G.W. Bush as chickenhawks, but then it was later discovered that Harkin was stationed in Japan, and only made some flights to Vietnam to deliver aircraft, and never flew operationally in the war.
Brownells is in Montezuma, Iowa, as Badger52's link notes. Montezuma was in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, represented by Democrat Leonard Boswell. Boswell is a moderate Democrat, retired Army LTC and decorated Vietnam veteran. Boswell does not appear among Brownells' donees in opensecret.org's databases.
Because of redistricting, Iowa is losing a congressional seat, and Montezuma will be in the Iowa 1st Congressional District, represented by Democrat Bruce Braley. Braley also does not appear among Brownells' donees in opensecret.org's databases.
Instead, Brownells executives have made their political contributions to Republicans Steve King and Tom Latham. Iowa redistricting forced King and Latham into the same district, so Latham moved and is challenging Boswell in his redrawn district.
Brownells is tied for 12th among King's top 20 contributors, but actually only accounts for 0.75% of his campaign contributions. Most of King's money comes from conservative PACs like the Club for Growth and Citizens United and from small donors.
Brownells accounted for 0.77% of Latham's campaign contributions and ranked 72nd among Latham donors. Latham's major donors are from corporations in a wide range of industries, but no single source accounts for more than 5%.
So it's not clear that corrupt congresscritters are at fault here.
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Originally Posted by Badger52
Doing the math indeed.
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Doing the math, that 2009 contract for which Brownells was to provide 1.41 million mags was a fixed-price contract for $10,730,100, or $7.61 per magazine. Anyone know how much Magpul charges military customers? Their cheapest commercial price for PMAGs is $14.95 for the basic, $17.95 for the MagLevel™ version.
It might just be a matter of bureaucratic number-crunching ignoring the soldiers in the field, unfortunately not a new story.