Preppers PING!!
Another story about this. Not the first time the Government has made purchases like this. Or course the FR’s resident crony capitalist shills and the goverment cover enablers will be along shortly with Baghdad Bob style explainations.
Could be one of two things in my opinion:
1) Someone in government has an extra $200K on hand they can’t spend and a friend or connection that can provide this cache of “what seems reasonable” provisions (at a highly marked up price), or
2) They are preparing for a short term siege on banks (long enough for LE and the NG to get there and protect them).