Nice privy..
Anyway, I know I posted back when they broke up the Co after being driven out of business...local outfit Vista Outdoors got most of their business and I believe that included the ammo line...
Now, I don't have much of Rem that isn't 12g (maybe an odd box of .45LC or .38spl) and none of it is newer than several years ago...so I doubt there is issues with anything I have...
As for new production...I have a hard time believing they are using range brass...or sub-standard outsourced cases from abroad...
Vista (Federal, Speer, CCI) , Hornady, Lake City all make their own...foreign like rest of US (Win, Rem & Browning) use subs for a lot...
But there are American producers of brass too and yeah a lot might be for high-end users but they are out there...Nosler, Starline (who I think Win uses)...
Plus, hard to tell from the box pics and the cracked neck pic if cracked at the get go or in extracting the bullet...hard to tell if the former look as dingy as the latter...
And as noted in the update...no way of telling if this story is BS...how do we know a competitor outside of Vista's aegis isn't stirring pots?