“...critical ammo shortage...”
Hard to believe when I visit the firearms section at the local Bass Pro shop.
They have .38’s???
Mine doesn’t and hasn’t since before Christmas, nor .40 nor .45 nor 380...[maybe a couple boxes of .38’s: they had less than a dozen at $22...]
7.62x39 is almost impossible to find right now...
.308 and .223 have more than doubled in price...
9mm, .45acp, .38spl and .357 mag are hard to find in most areas except the premium high priced stuff...
My local Bass Pro has shotgun shells by the thousands. Rifle cartidges are quite limited, though, and ammo for about any caliber of handguns is essentially non-existent.