there isn't any conspiracy, it's just the same combination of scalpers and hoarders. ammo manufacturers are attempting to keep up with demand, but the "demand" results from profit motive and hoarding motive, not from actual volume of rimfire shooting. which doesn't really bother me much, it has just made rimfire shooting more difficult and expensive in the short term.
I just don't buy it's the hoarders. The reason being I don't know of anyone that can say they have stocked up 25k rounds since the panic. Everyone I know has bought none or very little since the panic. They would all like to buy a lot but it's not there to be bought.
If CCI is making three million rounds a day that's a billion rounds a year from one company. Then we have Remington, federal, Eley, laupua, etc. With the limits in place it just doesn't add up.
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