I think it is worse than that. I went into my local gun store this week for some speed loaders and noticed a sign on the ammo shelves stating that all 22 cal ammo was only available with the purchase of a 22 cal weapon only and that the limit of only two boxes.
What that tells me is that the government is doing the Cloward/Piven strategy to ammo availability in buying up as much as the manufacturers are willing to sell them in bulk for the “big order” to limit what the Serfs can obtain to hedge against the checking of a tyrannical government.
Went to my local gun shop and the cupboards were bare. Lots of gaps in the display cases, no .22 to be found, and the prices of what ammo was there was quite high. Ammo = gold now...