100% agreed.
If you care to rtemember back before the school shootings, one of Obama's ideas was to increase the price of ammunition ( and components though he has no idea what components are and cares less I'm sure) to levels that would make the purchases unsustainable....
I'd say thats what is occuring.
There was just a long article in the NRA's American Rifleman (this month) about there is really no shortage (documented with manufacturers) and that people are buying the stuff up as fast as they can. I'd agree with that premise 100% as well.
I received notice from Midway yesterday morning that they had Federal GM210 primers in stock (I had asked for notification BTW). By the time I got home from work at 7:00 pm, they were sold out.
Normally, I buy 5K primers at a time, or 24 pounds of propellant or 2000 pills to carry me through a year, but the stuff is getting sucked up as fast as it shows up....
Someone, somewhere is building a helluva stash.
It ain't me either.
I have enough of everything for the foreseeable future including this fall and winter and I have thousands of 22's in bricks. I bought 10 bricks of just Wolf Match Extra last year in anticipation of a couple years of indoor pistol leagues because I got a quantity price. I haven't seen any Wolf Match Extra for a long time....