Ammo contracts are public record

by mcassill, Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:21 (2867 days ago) @ Bryan

Until someone can show me an actual contract as published in the Federal Register, I am going to continue chalking those stories as fanciful BS.
The DOD buys a paltry amount of the stuff for rifle teams, ROTC training, and the like. But that is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the civilian market. Billions of rounds sitting in a warehouse in the same fashion that the government stockpiles canned chicken? There would be a public paper trail on that.
Another data point: back during the worst of the ammo shortage, the pistol round that Fed agencies buy the most of, 40 Smith, was also the easiest to find in my area. Believe what you want.