...in storage...NASA has the commission
to look after, and store the precious material, belonging "to all Americans" at no charge....
OK!...But what if John & Jane Q. Public wants his or her congressman or woman to pass legislation that would compel NASA to offer a mere ONE PERCENT
of that lunar material it stores to interested investors or merchants, with NASA receiving a healthy [ex:40.0-50.0% ] commission in return? Hmmmm?

Noter that ONE PERCENT of 400kg is of course equivalent to 4000 grams.

If some investor, TODAY, is interested in buying a lunar-rock sample, that's only a little more than ONE GRAM in mass, for 5-million smackaroos...How much will 4000 grams of lunar material, divided up into a thousand samples, sell for?
1000 lunar samples x 5-million dollars/sample = 500-million dollars.

500-million dollars is no chump change
over at NASA nowadays. Especially at its JPL branch.... JPL could fund two planetary robot missions with that amount.

cheers.

Jacob