if it is a contract, it isn’t a purchase.
contracts are almost like letter of intents or what the private sector calls blanket purchase orders.
you haven’t purchased till you receive it.
I think this whole thing might be just confusion over language.
That being said, I am sure there is a warehouse with ammo stockpiled.
Yes, that may be the case, but still, the contracts are not out of line with amounts previously contracted. I don’t know if we have the statistics available of exactly how much of the previous contracts were filled, but from the statistics we do have, it doesn’t seem very unusual.