The government is buying it and destroying it. They have to be. It is (was) cheap and easy to amass large stockpiles quickly. There’s no other logical explanation for its sudden and prolonged disappearance from the market.
“There’s no other logical explanation for its sudden and prolonged disappearance from the market.”
Well, except for, you know, the fact that people who are paranoid about the government buying everything they can get their hands on.
Agree, there is no way that market forces can produce a shortage of 22LR lasting over a year.
22LR is the ordinary simple stuff which people use to put food on the table in hard times. Somebody does not want the American people to be able to do that.