1: Two large groups bought up EVERY SINGLE USA AMMO AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURER:
Olin Corporation and Vista Outdoor.
2: Smart people with MBAs work for large companies to maximize their SHAREHOLDER VALUE.
AN AMMO COMPANIES MAIN OBLIGATION IS TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFITS FOR THEIR OWNERS/STOCKHOLDERS, NOT TO MAKE US CUSTOMERS HAPPY.
The bright MBAs figured out that trying to ramp up ammo/component production to meet a cyclical, panic/political rhetoric driven demand was STUPID, disruptive and wasteful (I'm still shooting up many 1,000s of primers I got dirt cheap from people who panicked because Bill Clinton was going to confiscate all our guns, horded & ratholed everything they could find- Then never USED it, or ever realy learned to reload, finally just dumped 90% of it at a loss).
It is demonstrably MUCH more profitable when encountering self reinforcing panic fueled demands to just keep making about the quantity your existing infrastructure CAN make- AND RAISE PRICES DUE TO "SCARCITY" UNTIL AROUND THE POINT WHERE DEMAND FOR SAME QUANTITY OF NOW REALLY EXPENSIVE AMMO IS AT ABOUT 105% OF THEIR EXISTING PRODUCTION CAPACITY. Why waste money when the suckers will double your profits for doing NOTHING except entering higher prices into your catalogues?
No money WASTED building out factories/adding production lines, hiring & training new workers, then shutting down factories and mothballing production lines they still have to pay on business expansion loans for/pay property tax on- And laying off hard tofind, expensive to recruit & train workers (who now ruin their employment statistics, drive up costs of their unemployment compensation insurance!).
"Is no personal. Is only business."
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