Lake City is a Government Owned Contractor Operated facility. Now I have been told that once the contractor in charge has fulfilled their Government obligations, they can run the plant and make ammunition for sale. I think this must be a great deal for the contractor who wins the bid to operate Lake City, the Government pays for the maintenance, repair, of the facility and the contractor gets to run the plant for themselves. I don't know the up side for the Government other than some Colonel gets a great job from the Contractor when he retires from the Army.
This is why we have seen brand new LC 223 brass, Lake City ran more and sold it to the civilian market place.