There was a past thread some time ago, concerning a federal agency buying a immence amount of ammo to stock pile for what ever reason. All I'm saying is that God forbid we ever get into a global conflict I sure don't think it is avery good policy to be in a position that we have to depend on China or for that matter, anybody else for ammo. For better or worse the lead belt of Missouri is the largest concentration of lead ore in the world. However lead for any use must be smelted. Now our lead will have to be sent overseas for smelting...Hope we don't ever need large amounts of lead for any global emergency I remember someone on this site commenting on the millions of rounds bought by one of our federal agencies. Wasn't the military!!!!! Darn who else would need 10's of millions rounds of small arms ammo.