End of Surplus?

The sky is not falling. Your contact is probably just getting scared, and will probably come to his senses after some time. The government is getting far more restrictive with EUCs and demil policies (this goes back to the 1990s), and because of this, surplus "died" back then. It still came out. It still comes out to this day (although not as much cool stuff is spared from demil). Looks at the way DRMS works - often things are sold as piles, with a few things tagged and logged on the side to make it look official (remember the bored clerks that have to do this stuff - it is much easier to ignore serials and model numbers when 5 PM is approaching! Lots of fun things are found in those piles - often things that really ought not to get out*. If the government does not have the complete numbers of what got out - what good will the scrapman's paper be? As you know, but others may not, if you get in good with a scrap guy, he will sell you just about anything, provided you don't cross him. *Like late model military radios, as in the kind that show up on Ebay from time to time. They should not be out at all - those that are were hidden in the "piles" and are stolen! William Donzelli aw288 at osfn.org