[Shooter 2.5]

Bullet alert.

[Mulder]

IIRC, Klinton signed an Executive Edict banning the sale of military surplus ammo to us peasants.

Thus, ammo companies had no motivation to build the infrastructure to make as much as a single round more than the military had contracted for that year. And even that was risky as funding from year-to-year is always at the mercy of Congress and politics comes into play.

Any extra ammo had to be stockpiled somewhere (which costs $$$$) since they couldn't sell it to American citizens.