True.
I did find equipment on-line for making swaged (i.e.: full metal jacket) bullets at home. Looks like it really isn’t that hard once you get past the $1000 entry cost, and is much preferable to casting. Basic premise is stuff a piece of lead wire into a copper tube, and squeeze (very hard) to shape.
Brass shells may be a bit tougher to make. Haven’t looked into that.
The real problem is primers: AFAIK, ain’t nobody gonna be making those in their basements.
Very true that cost is nuts. Wasn’t that long ago I got a case of .308 for $180 and was grumbling over the cost.
10 years ago I stocked up on primers, its possible to make shot shells out of almost anything and the hulls can be used more times than other brass.
So if I were to be in total panic mode I would get as many shotshell primers as I could, get good decent hulls, wads and prepare to scrounge for lead or shot in any shape or form, wheel weights, fishing weights, 177 and .22 cal BB’s and of course the powder.
I seriously doubt things will ever go the way of Mad Max (Mel Gibson) days after doomsday scenario.
The bright light in all the surge of ammo sales and firearms is that it can seriously put the damper of a real life dictator taking power, in the near future it would pay to keep tabs on what is getting to be in short supply, from what I hear its .223 and 45acp. I actually have plenty of both but my first choice of longarm is my M1A in .308 and my carry the 10MM Glock.