A reloader will keep you in ammo for a good while.................
The problem with reloading is it’s simple assembly of complex parts. Most can’t take slabs of lead, brass, & copper and turn them into useful forms, much less make the powder or primers. If I’m going to pay someone for all those pieces shaped & mixed, I’ll pay a bit more for mundane assembly and spend the time saved on making what I can from raw materials.
>>The police even go after little kids who try to make some extra money selling lemonade and tell them they need a permit
The most recent story like that I’ve seen was from a little bitty town in the middle of nowhere off of I-95 here in GA between Savannah and Brunswick. I found it quite disheartening that such idiocy had reached a place like that. It’s the kind of thing you expect to hear from a DC suburb on the Maryland side, not in rural GA. I hope they demote or even fire the police chief over it.