What happens when the buying stops? Is this a panic or a trend? Manufacturers want to know.
Oh, and then there is the shortage of brass and copper to make the cartridges.
As to better, its like fusion. The solution is always 20 years away.
As to cheaper, sure. Its called steel cases. Of course your chamber wears out faster.
What they don't want, is to increase their capacity (and thus their fixed overhead) and then just when they've finished this, people decide "I have enough ammo stockpiled to last me for years now", and stop buying.
I think that part of this is people deciding to stockpile ammo at home in case the feds restrict ammo access, and part is from new gun owners needing ammo to practice with.
Stock analysts have been saying, for the last 4 years, that gun buying will be stopping "soon". They have been proven wrong quarter after quarter, for years. There are so many new people into guns that the "buying" won't be stopping any time soon. The number of women now buying guns is skyrocketing.