If one tries to look at this logically, you have to ask the questions:
1.) Has the government ever made this type of non-military purchase before, in this volume?
2.) What is the given reason by the government for the purchase?
I don’t think it is any stretch that an anti-gun administration would push an agenda to limit gun ownership and usage by a variety of methods including:
a) Regulation of gun ownership
b) Regulation of gun manufacturers
c) Taxing of gun owners
d) Taxing of gun manufacturers
e) Regulation of ammo manufacturing
f) Taxing of ammo manufacturing
g) Regulation of gun and ammo sales
h) Taxing of gun and ammo sales
i) Creating scarcity of guns through artificially induced scarcity of raw materials
j) Creating scarcity of ammo through artificially induced scarcity of raw materials
k) Creating scarcity of guns through artificially induced scarcity of finished product
l) Creating scarcity of ammo through artificially induced scarcity of finished product
And any administration that would knowingly allow people to be killed by guns provided by the government to further their goals would shrink from spending a few hundreds of millions of dollars to buy up ammo to deprive gun owners the means to load their weapons.
This analysis does not even consider any more nefarious or conspiracy themes such as a nascent police state using henchmen of the current administration.
This analysis focuses completely on how liberals would look to restrict and remove our 2nd Amendment rights without having to enter the spotlight of “real” legislation or any amendments to the Constitution.
For the Left, all is the “ends justifies the means” even if it means abolishing the Constitution. So, the law-abiding citizen is without self-defense for him and his fellow innocent citizens while the lawless turn this country into the Wild West. I suppose the government is counting on killer drones to make “splashes” on the gang banger killers (IMHO).
Big Government will do what it takes to do all for their dependant citizen.