“I think greater demand necessitates larger purchase orders. If it’s going straight from the pallet to the customer, never occupying space on the shelf, you buy more. It’s a simple concept.”
They can’t buy more, because production can’t keep up with the increased demand.
So the manufacturers are producing as much as they can. And the retail outlets are buying as much as they can. And no one, anywhere, is actually getting any of it.
And this sudden demand for .22LR just exploded in December, 2012.
If that makes sense to you, great. It doesn’t to me. At all.