It's one of the more unusual partnerships you'll see.
The New York City Police Department and a Georgia ammunition maker are teaming up to save taxpayers, and local police departments, money. They're also making a profit, as well.
The story begins in New York where, every three months, the police department sells tons of fired pistol and rifle brass.
Enter Larry Hainey, co-owner of Georgia Arms, an ammunition manufacturer in Villa Rica.
"We bought about 29,000 pounds of pistol and rifle brass," says Hainey. "That's about three or four million shell casings."
Hainey paid the NYPD about $70,000 for the brass, more money than the department was getting from a local scrap metal dealer.
After receiving the truckloads of spent shell casings, Hainey turned them into money makers.
"We clean and inspect the casings," he says, "then we put that brass back into the form of loaded ammunition."
Georgia Arms then sells the remanufactured bullets to police departments in Georgia and around the country for a discount.
"Typically their savings are about 20-25 percent over new ammunition," says Hainey.
The remanufactured bullets are used by the police for target and range practice, not for street use.
One of Hainey's clients in the Kentucky State Police.
"They would buy 700,000 to 800,000 rounds per year," Hainey says. "That would be a cost savings of between $50,000 to $100,000 a year in the cost of new ammunition versus our ammunition."
Hainey says there are only about five or six ammo makers in the U.S. who can handle this type of transaction and he believes he's the only one in the southeast.
For all involved it's a win-win-win.
New York gets more from their spent brass than usual, local police buy bullets for less than factory cost and Georgia Arms turns a profit.