firesky: Sorry for the dedicated thread. I did look, clearly not well enough. will try and close this one.
CWL: sure did think. cause dad says I'm his smartest son, doh! yep, planning on selling my 100 rounds to homeland security as soon as they get to their last 625th million.... Purchasing inflationary commodities for future consumption or buying forward contracts are inflationary hedges. I work in industry and resin, pet, hdpe, ps, aluminium, stainless, brass, copper and chemicals have inflated 10 to 30 percent. If the DHS is buying 625 million rounds they are either very paranoid or very savvy with regard to the futures market... which as far as I am aware is not traded publicly. Since global conflict is ubiquitous and runs on bullets I was hoping to trigger by mention of gold speculation on why ammunition was not similarly marketed. If we can buy pork belly futures why not .223?
Gary: it saves tax dollars, agreed, but it does not cover all fed agencies, only DHS. It is a contract for future delivery, not bulk delivery.