All those silly Internet posts about the government buying trillions of bullets, which some see as a backdoor form of gun control, are one source of upward pressure on demand and prices even if the underlying premise is false (the government never purchases the amounts it puts out in requests for proposals).
One popular objection says that the IRS violates the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 by failing to put a required Office of Management and Budget control number onform instructions.