Because there really is nothing out there, and the whole thing is so absurd that nobody had thought to actually care about it, until some people who don’t understand federal procurement got it in their heads that our government was stocking up on bullets for the zombie apocalypse.
I was pointing out they haven't actually bought 1.6 billion rounds already and don't really intend to do so when this first broke, but there's a point where there are just so many morons repeating something that people desperately want to believe that they can't be defeated.
How obtuse. Hollow point bullets are banned under the Geneva Convention. Ordering any amount of hollow point bullets is a breech of international law.