I think I brought this up about four-five months ago . . Everyone was worrying about their guns and their magazines and I said then, buy all the ammo you can get, and preferably, buy it from one of the "reloaders" at a gun show or other place.
But on the other hand, I dunno if it's actually the "Guv'mint" doing this or just the hyped up market. Remember, if everyone who uses Gasoline, for some reason, went out this morning and bought a tank full of gasoline, the country would be out of gas before Noon PDT.
A guy at WalMart told me that last year, on average he'd sell about 10-12 boxes of 9 mm ball a month. Now, he'll get about 20 boxes per month and they're gone the morning he puts them on the shelf . .
The Politicians don't, apparently, understand the "Unintended Consequences" of their rhetoric and "politicking" . . Simply because, anytime you speak publicly about anything that would or might become hard to obtain, Murphy's Law will step in and it certainly will. Just because everybody that might want one of whatever it is, will go out and buy one, and generally, pay whatever it costs . .
I see guns for sale today for $800 that you couldn't sell for $300 last July . . Dunno if they're getting that money for them, but that's what they're asking. And don't even think of latching on to an AR style .223 Semi-Auto for less than $1800 . . These things have gone nuts . . . The .308's are bringing $2800-$3800 depending upon make. Totally nuts . .
I think most of it is just "Supply and Demand", although I might backtrack on something I said back aways about justification of the HSA buying a jillion rounds of pistol and rifle ammo. There may be method to their madness. But, because our government works (Questionable description?) kind of sporadically, one doesn't really know whether some dickhead in the HSA suddenly found out that he was gonna come up short and ordered a ten year supply or some other Socialist Dickhead has an agenda. I suppose one should expect the worst and welcome the least . .