“all of the ammo manufacturers have been running at full speed for over a year”
Not sure I believe it..If there was a long term shortage of any other product, an ipod for example, Someone would be cranking them out and they would be everywhere.. 22 longs and other ammos have been scarce since 2008.
—I was under the impression that nobody manufactured .22 “longs” anymore —I am 73 and haven’t seen anything but “shorts” and “long rifles” most of my life-—
My take on the ammo shortage is it’s a combination of hoarding by the general public, government agency contracts for millions of rounds designed to effectively remove ammo from the shelves so the masses cannot use their newly acquired weapons, and a complicit ammo industry which will never cross the federal government and has been hamstrung with the task of fulfilling huge contracts from all the fed agencies that take years of production runs to fulfill. Even the postal service has been ordering millions of rounds. These contracts take precedence over production runs designed for retail sales to the general public. Like the high price of gasoline due to the falling value of the dollar, the price for ammo will never return to pre-market manipulation levels. One box of .38 special runs $35 for 50. Who can afford to go to the gun range now?