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Agreed. Not enough ammo available. No "balance" there. Old Cankles is half-right. As usual, which means she's about half-wrong typically, when not more fully ~~stepping~~ waddling out on some 'liberal agenda' crusade or another...

They could put the older military stuff on the civilian market, like they used to. That might free up some brass enough to help the price come down for government ammo purchases too.

Or -- they (the federal government) could just keep the ammo they have now, and instead of buying billions of rounds, delegate those millions of rounds that are slated for destruction to be used for training purposes. That could save money that could be better spent elsewhere -- like on wounded veterans.

Pentagon to destroy $1 billion worth of ammo. This makes sense because…?

Now, this last part is quite perplexing to me, having spent 22 years in the US Army as a combat artillery officer and being quite involved in ammunition management as a Brigade/Regimental operations officer, a Battalion Executive officer, and a Battalion Commander. We constantly received spreadsheets that were reconciled monthly for ammunition allocation and use. In the Army we have Division and Corps level Ammunition Officers whose sole mission is ammunition management, which is forecasted out and allocated yearly.
Excess ammunition? We were begging for excess ammunition for training purposes. And I recall on several occasions when I was an Army exchange officer with the II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune working out some issues on ammunition transfer and training between XVIIIth Airborne Corps, Ft. Bragg. So what is this baloney?
Folks, this is why we need more men and women serving on Capitol Hill who have served in uniform and can raise the Bovine Excrement flag. It would also behoove these Members of the House and Senate who are on Armed Services committees to have staffers who are veterans and can provide proper insight and perspective.