I understand this, but how much harder would it be to place on the order for some FMJ rounds for training? If there are so many people in the service, then it would save a great deal of money buying FMJ for practice and training rather than HP. And the military doesn't even use hollow point ammunition because it goes against the rules established by the Geneva convention. So this ammo could not possibly be going to the military.
Just FYI, GA State Patrol does the same. They buy .45GAP Gold Dots in bulk from Speer. I actually got a box of what I can only guess is "overrun" because it was 250 rounds of 200gr Gold Dots for $85. It's exactly what GSP issues, same specs listed on the plain white box of 250 loose rounds, but the label says "Not For Law Enforcement Use". Considering it's new ammo, loaded to the same specs, in the same cases, with the same bullets as what would normally be sold in boxes of 20 for $25ish...
So a workaround to that rule? lol sneaky suckers.
They wouldn't be able to use it against enemy combatants in a war or armed conflict.
When you think about it, in an ideal world, you would want your training to not be just as close as possible to how it would be in real life, but identical. The best way to do that is to train with the same ammo you carry. We all, hopefully, do that, at least to some extent.
I always try to try to by training ammo that's the same weight and spec as my carry ammo. Doing that is the best I can do to practice with what I carry, outside of the boxes of carry ammo I put through my guns to prove them out, and when I'm shooting off old carry ammo to be replaced by new.
For people who carry their guns for a living, and doing so for the benefit of the country, I'm not going to begrudge them HPs for training.
If I could afford to shoot nothing but my carry ammo, especially on someone else's dime, I absolutely would.
To put a different spin on this...if your local, 100 officer, police department awarded a contract for 500k rounds over 5 years, would that bother you? That would be 1000 rounds per person per year. If you qualify quarterly, and shoot 250 rounds each time, there's your 1000 rounds and you still don't have your carry ammo.