Many of the Walmarts in smaller Iowa cities have locked up lithium batteries for some time. Now that Iowa has fewer actual farmers (and fewer actual farm families) some towns welcome "diversity" and are willing to put all sorts of things under lock and key as long as there is a generous flow of SNAP, Section 8 and assorted FedGov money, and the newly-minted Iowans pop out enough kids to keep school enrollment numbers - which equal $$$ - up.
How lovely.
:-/