Welcome to Prep Club. The first rule of Prep Club is: you do not talk about Prep Club.
Back in the late 1970s when survivalism really took off, I read in some survivalist magazine that some people had prepared their retreat and were fully stocked with food and guns.
One day they took another load to their retreat and found everything....GONE!
I began to look into survivalism back about 1960. At that time you could get military rifles cheap as no one wanted them. They wanted deer hunting rifles.
The movement did not take off till Mel Tappan started his GUNS AND AMMO articles in the mid 1970s, (Jimmy Carter Years) and semi-auto rifles became the RAGE! The prices skyrocketed.
Things leveled out till Y2K and 9-11. Now it is the rage again.