You can buy neither on Ebay.(or Craigslist for that matter)
You’re right about firearms and ammo, though. I had assumed from an eBay search engine hit while looking for brass elsewhere. Tried again, and it turned out to be laser bore sighting tools and other junk.
My point was that scalpers bought quite a few different kinds of items and sold them second-hand (like the bolt carrier groups previously for sale through eBay, others who frequented sporting goods stores on delivery dates and so on)—much like the freaks who scalped rock concert customers for tickets during the ‘70s.
It’s disgusting—all of it. We’re not producing nearly enough of many things on our own American soil for revenues to support a reasonably sized government, much less the regulating, snooping, gossipy monstrosity we’re seeing. All influential sides in politics are lobbying for their government incomes and government-derived incomes (e.g., retail, services, all).
And now, according to our fearless leaders in politically correct business, government and academia, the world is about to end in any one or several of many ways. Run for your lives! That was not the way of real men, who ran this country a few decades ago.
Volume for production and sales was the American way that worked—not the contemporary, shrinking fascist/commie model. The better part of the default process is coming. Let’s have fun and enjoy the slide toward much smaller government and better leadership in business, academia and politics. Tomorrow belongs to the technically inclined—especially low-techs.